Chapter 10 – Brenna
After locking the door behind Beast, I walked over and grabbed my phone, turning the ringer on so that he didn’t come charging over again tonight. He’s pushing himself into my life, telling me that he’s coming over again tonight, but surprisingly I wasn’t unhappy about that.
After I hung up from Beast, calling to double check that I had turned my ringer on and locked the door, I saw that it was getting later than I realized. I went to my bedroom to get some laundry together and once I had thrown it in the wash, I started to get the food prepped for dinner tonight. I love to cook, but I’m usually pretty slow at prepping everything.
Once I had everything prepped and ready to cook I took a break and had a seat on the couch hoping to catch up on some Netflix. Three episodes into watching season 2 of Outlander, my doorbell rang.
I got up and looked through the peephole, just in case it was Beast checking up on me, and saw that it was Everly. I looked at my watch and saw that it was only 4:00. Opening the door I stood in the doorway blocking her way.
“What in the world are you doing here? You’re like two hours early dude. Why are you two hours early?”
She started to push past me, her hands full of cupcakes. Tonight was going to lead to a sugar high!
“Get out of my way woman. I have cupcakes to put down and I’m so excited to see you!”
I had a feeling I knew what her news was, but I didn’t want to ruin her excitement. She walked into the kitchen and put the cupcakes on the counter, taking in all the food I had prepped to go in the oven.
“Damn, someone was busy. We are going to be in food and sugar comas by the end of the night.”
I followed her into the kitchen and sat at the island, looking at the absolute joy on her face. “So, are you going to tell me what’s got you looking so excited and happy?”
She held her hand out to me and the most beautiful ring was on her finger. It had a huge dark blue stone, I’m assuming a sapphire, surrounded by diamonds. It was beautiful and totally Everly’s style.
I jumped up and grabbed her into a hug. “Oh my God, I’m so excited for you. I’m so sorry I missed it!”
“It’s okay. I know you had to work. I’m just so excited to share this with you. Joker only gave me three months to get everything planned, ridiculous man, so we will have a lot of work to do.”
“Three months! Jesus, that man works fast doesn’t he? Just let me know what you need me to do and I’ll do it. Do you have any ideas yet?”
“I do. I need to check out a couple of venues with Joker, I was thinking backyard of the Rose Cottage B&B or the barn at the winery. I’ve been to a wedding there before and it’s gorgeous. Now to see if they are available.”
“Okay, well it’s still relatively early. Maybe they have someone working in their offices. I’ll look up the B&B and you look up the Vineyard and we can make some calls before we have to start dinner. The sooner we get a location set, the sooner we can get everything else set up. How big of a guest list are you looking at?”
“Oh jeez, I have no idea. Let’s say between 75 and 100?”
We pulled out our phones and got to work. Being a B&B I figured I would be able to get hold of someone and I was right. They had a couple of days available, unfortunately no Saturday’s, but I don’t see that being a problem. I wrote down the dates and told them I would get back to them in the next hour.
Once I had hung up, I looked over to see Everly already off the phone looking at me sadly. “What’s the matter hun? No luck?”
“No, unfortunately not. They only do weddings on Fridays and Sundays and they have been booked up for over a year. What about you?”
“We had some luck. They have three dates available, but only one of them is within the three month timeline and it’s on a Sunday.”
“That’s fantastic! What’s the date?”
“September 23. It’s not a lot of time, but if all we have is three months we will work with it. What do you think? Did you want to call Joker and double check with him or should we just book it?”
“Joker be damned, if he’s only going to give me three months to have the wedding of my dreams, then he will just have to sit back and go with it.”
God I loved my bestie. She was straight to the point and didn’t put up with any bullshit from Joker when it’s something she really wants. I gave her the number of the B&B and she called them and gave them Joker’s credit card number for the deposit.
Once she hung up, I burst out laughing. “You have his credit card?”
“Well yeah, I figured we’d be getting down to business when I came over tonight. I know how you work, you get shit done, so I made him give me his card.”
With the booking of the venue all done, I got up and walked into the kitchen, Everly following me, so that we could get dinner started. Everything just needed to be heated up in the oven so once I put it in we sat down at the island and I grabbed her a glass of wine and a bottle of water for myself.
I know it’s sneaky, but I wanted to see if she noticed I wasn’t joining her in a celebratory drink.
“Here’s to my best friend meeting not only her match, but the love of her life. May you guys have a great life together through all of the ups and downs you are sure to go through, just make sure that you always go to bed sexually satisfied!”
I couldn’t make a totally mushy toast. I don’t do mush.
Everly lifted her glass and went to tap it against my bottle, but stopped part way and looked at my bottle then looked back at me. Slowly putting her glass on the counter she turned to fully face me with a look of confusion on her face.
“What’s going on? Why aren’t you drinking? You pregnant or something?” She was saying that as a joke, but little did she know, she nailed it.
“Yes.”
She leapt up from her stool and started wandering around the room, almost like she didn’t know what to do with herself. “Holy shit! Tell me you are screwing with me! How are you pregnant? You’re on the pill and you’re always careful.”
“Calm down. No, I’m not screwing with you. These things happen.”
“These things happen? That’s your response to me?”
I know I’m evil, but I love to get a rise out of her. It’s one of the great joys in my life. I know, I’m boring.
Suddenly Everly turned back to me with a look of shock. “Oh my fucking God! Beast is the father isn’t he? It’s the only thing that makes sense. You would have told me if you were seeing anyone.”
“Yeah Beast is the father. We were stupid the night we got together and didn’t use condoms and obviously my birth control didn’t work so here we are.”
“Does Beast know?”
“Yes, he came over last night and spent the night and woke up to me experiencing the loveliness of morning sickness. Let’s just say it wasn’t the way I wanted to tell him, but it got the message across.”
Everly sat back down with a thump and just stared at me. “So, how are you feeling about this?”
“Well, I’ve had a few days to process this. It’s not how I ever imagined myself having kids, but now that I’m going to be a mom, I’m actually really happy.”
“What about Beast? How did he react?”
I knew she was expecting me to say that he reacted badly, but she was going to be surprised.
“He was actually really good. He was worried about me being sick, but when I told him that I was pregnant and it was his he didn’t even question me. He was actually quite calm and supportive. He wants to be fully involved.”
“That’s great. I’d hate to have to kick his ass.”
The thought of Everly trying to kick Beast’s ass had me laughing so hard I thought I might pee my pants. Beast was over 6 foot 3 and had to weigh close to 250 pounds of pure muscle. Everly was barely 5 foot 5 and while she was in good shape she’d never be able to take down Beast.
“I love you, but we both know that you’d never be able to take him. You’d just have to sic Joker on him.”
The rest of the night was just what I needed. We chatted and planned and laughed, making the rest of the tension I didn’t realize I was experiencing, melt away.