Chapter 1

Today is the day. I wonder if he will be shocked, scared, surprised because I am all three of these. We weren't planning on starting a family so soon. Granted it has been a year since the wedding and I have fallen in love with Teddy…oh Teddy the light of my life. He has brought such joy to this family and seeing Ana as a mom and wife has been quite a glorious thing. Not that I ever doubted she would be amazing, it is just the love that she exudes for the 2 men in her life leaves me awestruck. Christian, well he has grown on me. I look at him as a big brother these days. We haven't always been fond of one another. However, time and consistency on his part has won me over. He loves Ana and Teddy and so I love him. Although we still enjoy getting our digs in on each other.

Elliott, well he is the absolute love of my life. Ana and I talk often of how fate played such a huge roll in finding our perspective spouses. My road was undoubtedly less traumatic than Ana's. Elliott and I dated for a year and have now been married a year. Today is the day I tell him we will have new roles as mother and father, daddy and mommy to the little one growing rapidly in my belly. I can't help but run my hands protectively over my womb and smile, wondering if it will be a boy or girl, will this little one have Elliott's deep brown eyes or my long and skinny feet? My thoughts are interrupted as Elliott walks through the front door. I take a deep breath, "Here goes nothing." I mutter under my breath.

"Hey Babe, how was your day?" Elliot asks. "Uneventful for the most part," I say with a smirk. Elliott knows me well and reads immediately that I am being sarcastic. "Lay it on me. Did you have a fight with your editor? Or was it the fact that Ana asked mom to keep Teddy this weekend and not you?" Elliott now has his own smirk. Judging by the look on my face he knows he has just dropped a bomb on me that I am processing, badly. "She what?! She promised the next time they went out of town that I was top on the list. I love your mom Elliott, honestly I do, but for all that is right I won't stand for that. I am going to call Ana right now." As I am storming off Elliott grabs my arm and pulls me tight to his chest. I am still struggling. For the life of me I don't know why I am so worked up, oh yeah, I am pregnant and my emotions are all over the place. "Hold up killer." Elliot caresses my hair. God I love how he smells especially after a long day of manual labor…. I take it in, so manly and all Elliott. Crap now my emotions are in check but my libido is out of control…it's going to be a long 9 months. "I asked her to see if mom could do it." He whispers. "What? Why?" I am losing the emotional battle again. He knows how much I wanted to have Teddy for a visit. Christian and Ana so rarely have him out of their sight and now that they live further away I hardly see either of them except for Sunday family dinners. "Kate, come on you know I've been worried about you. You have been so sick and until we find out what is causing it I didn't want to risk Teddy getting sick or you getting worse." Of course, he would be looking out for me. "I'm pregnant Elliott so neither Teddy nor I will be in danger so now you can tell Ana to have Teddy here, no later than 5 pm on Friday." I finish my rant and manage to step back enough to see Elliott's face. Mouth hanging open, eyes welling with tears, I realize what I blurted out. Well that wasn't how I expected that to go. I had a whole scene planned; the perfect way to announce that he was going to be a daddy and yet in typical Kate form I screw up all romantic gestures. "God Elliott I am so sorry. I screwed the pooch on that." I ramble on about how stupid I am not really thinking about what I am saying. Elliott leans down and places his mouth over mine shutting me up with a very passionate kiss that takes my breath away. "So you aren't disappointed?" I ask. "Oh you silly girl, of course I am not disappointed, surprised yes, scared, yes, shocked to my core, huge yes, but disappointed no. I have never wanted anything more in my life."

Well , that went better than I imagined….sort of.