She couldn’t take the test until the next morning, but I raced to the cabin with a truckload for her. It only took five minutes for us to know the answer.

I held her close on the bathroom floor. So, close I could feel her heartbeat against my chest. This wasn’t supposed to happen. None of it was supposed to happen.

“I think I’m going to be sick.” She pushed away from me and held onto the wall closest to her.

I watched her. She was pregnant. She was carrying my baby. I didn’t know whether to burst with pride or wallow in the shame of what I had done. I never would have gotten her pregnant, only to leave her with my child.

I ran my hands over my head and tried to smile when she turned toward me.

“Sorry,” she whispered.

“Are you ok?”

She nodded. “I feel better. Can I have a glass of water?”

“Of course.”

I left Gretchen on the floor while I poured a glass of water for her.

“Here you go.”

She took the glass and drank until it was empty. “I’m crazy thirsty.”

I nodded. “I can see that.”

“It’s common with pregnancy.” I could hear the tone in her voice. She sounded like she did at the hospital, reciting medical facts. “Although, what’s not common is someone who needs a Hail Mary pass to get pregnant to be pregnant after just three weeks of unprotected sex. Even crazier is to show symptoms right away. But everyone is different I guess.”

She wanted an explanation from me but I didn’t have one. “I’m as surprised as you are. I didn’t know it would happen this fast. I loved fucking you that way.”

“It seems like you have super human sperm? Delta sperm,” she teased.

I stretched along the bathroom wall, letting her fall against my chest. “I don’t know, doc. This is the first time I’ve had a baby. You know how all that stuff works. Not me.”

She sighed. “I think we can leave the bathroom now.”

“All right.” I reached for her hand and helped her from the floor. We walked to the living room.

I had to do something. I stacked logs in front of the hearth and started piling them in the fireplace. I struck a match under the kindling. I waited for the warm glow to spread before I sat next to her on the couch.

“I’m freaking out, Brett. What in the hell am I going to do? I’m finishing my residency. You’re leaving. I think I just agreed to be married and on top of that agreed to have your baby. This is insane. We’re going to be parents.”

“Shh.” I kissed her forehead. I didn’t have the answers.

She looked at me and my heart thudded louder than it ever had. I brushed my lips over hers, inhaling everything about her. Her breasts had never looked more tempting.

“Brett, we have to talk.”

“No, we don’t.” I pushed her back on the couch. “Talk to me like this.” I unbuttoned her shirt, letting the fabric drift to the side.

“We’re too rough,” she breathed. “We can’t…” her words trailed off as I pulled the pants over her hips.

“I promise to be careful.” My eyes fired.

I was going to take her over and over again until we couldn’t speak. Until we couldn’t breathe. Until she knew how I worshipped her body. How much I fucking loved her.

* * *

Gretchen

There were things we should talk about. But one taste of his lips and my body was on fire. It had to be the pregnancy hormones. But none of that seemed to matter as Brett lowered his mouth to my breast.

My back bowed off the couch, offering more to his mouth. Nothing had ever felt so intense or heated as his tongue flicked over my perked nub. Everything about my nipples was sensitive. The need to feel more was gripping me. I pressed his head against my chest.

“Harder,” I urged.

He growled, “I’m trying to be careful.”

But the sensations were ripping through me like lighting strikes. His tongue lashed and toyed until I felt the slow waves quickening in my core. I bucked as his fingers slid between my legs.

“Oh, Brett.” I clawed at his back. Everything was intensified. The ripples shook me.

I looked in his eyes as he settled between my legs with his powerful cock. “I promise I won’t hurt you.”

“But I love it when you’re hard,” I whimpered.

“Oh, baby,” he growled. “You fucking kill me.”

He sank inside me in one slow glorious thrust.

“Ohh,” I moaned. It felt so right. So full. So soothing having him buried inside me again.

Brett began to slide in and out of me and I felt the snapping in my core. I offered myself to him, wrapping my legs around his waist so he could push deeper inside. I needed it.

“More. I want more,” I begged.

He grinned. “Like this?” He sank his cock slow and hard into me, making me breathless.

“Fuck, yes.” My head reeled back.

He growled in my ear as he moved in and out of me. Taking his time to fill me completely before sliding out again.

“My baby is inside you, doc.”

“Yes,” I whispered. Our eyes locked, as our bodies slid together raw and warm.

When we knew we couldn’t take any more, Brett wrapped his arms around me and held me while we quivered and pulsed, feeling the magic run back and forth between us.