Reviews are my crack! (and a little bit of Steve too, obviously)

Steve all sweet again. Adorable man is adorable!

Also, I should tell you that even though this fic is not done yet, I'm already working on a sequel. Dunno know if after this fic is done you'll want to read it. Lemme know.

LOVE YOU ALL!

So yeah, everything was fine, Stacie remained being a crazy ass woman. She wandered around the office once in a while, with the excuse of watching her man in action, but I was certain she was making sure I didn't say a word to Steve. I was planning to keep my promise, for now.

I cannot begin to explain how pissed off she was when Steve arrived at the headquarters after having lunch with her with a present in his hands. He stands in front of me, smile plastered on his handsome face, waiting for me to open the medium sized box in my hands.

"What's this?"

"I was walking past a kids' store and I spotted this in the window. I thought you might like it."

I open the box to reveal a beautiful baby rattle with a pink ribbon on the handle. It wasn't much but to me it was the most adorable thing in the world, just like the teddy bear he gave me before.

"Steve, you didn't have to," I whisper in wonder.

"Sure I did," he spoke. "Besides, I'd like to pamper my niece. I want to be her favorite uncle."

Sweet lord.

How this man can be so adorable is beyond my own comprehension. As much as I liked Steve being sweet to my unborn child, the way he gave me things, the way he was treating me gave me the feeling that if Stacie found out about this someone would get in trouble. Which lead me to do the hardest thing I've ever done so far (besides lying, of course).

"Steve, I'm really grateful for everything you've done. I really am, but I don't think you should be doing this anymore."

"What are you talking about?"

"You're getting married. You can't spend the rest of your life worried about me and my daughter."

"Kono…"

"I want you to stop," I speak but my words turn into a whisper and my eyes full of tears. God, how it hurts to do this. "Please move on with your life. Go and marry and be happy. I can handle this own my own."

I walk away and I know he's standing there, watching me while I stay as far away from him as possible. I really wish he couldn't see my anger and pain because I'm angry with myself but I'm also angry at her because she doesn't deserve him.

Perhaps I should just stop being selfish and should stop thinking about me, my heart and my feelings and start thinking about my child, about how much she will need her father.

God, I've never been so confused in my life. I'm amazed at how weird this whole situation is turning out to be.

"The nerve of that woman!" Maggie says as she paces around my house. She's the first person I share the news with, and the anger radiating from her whole body makes me regret even opening my mouth. "I should go there and kick her skinny ass!"

"Maggie…"

"I can't believe her! How can she just waltz in here and threaten you like she owns the place?"

"I know."

"That's it. I'm talking to Steve." She grabs my phone and I jump to take it away from her hand. "What are you doing?"

"You will not do anything at all, you understand me?"

"I'm trying to help here."

"Look…" I sigh heavily making my thoughts clear, somehow. "I know you don't understand what I'm doing, and probably think I'm out of my mind. But I'm gonna stand by my word no matter what…"

"But she's…"

"Out of her mind, I know. But the way I see it is she's just in love and whatever she said to me is because she really doesn't want to lose Steve. I would have done the same in her position."

"Lying to Steve about having kids? Threatening to hurt a pregnant woman if she ever gets close to him?"

Okay, maybe not that far.

"That woman is a freaking psycho, if she's making threats now imagine what's going to happen when the baby is born!"

Yeah well, she's right about that.

"Look, once Stacie and Steve marry, all of this will be over."

"No, it won't."

"Yes, it will."

"All I'm saying is, once a psycho, always a psycho."

TBC