Chapter 5
"Rachel… Honey you have to tell him." My mother soothed. Ever since I'd found out I was expecting our baby I'd avoided Dex like the plague and sought sanctuary in my parent's house and midnight calls to Darcy.
He'd called everyday not buying my lame excuse that I was homesick after thankfully passing TORTS.
"What if he leaves me?" "I can handle him not wanting to be with me but, our child? How do I explain to our baby that Daddy didn't want to know them?"
"Has he ever given you the impression that he didn't want a family with you?" Dad chimes in as I sit at the table with my head in my hands.
"No, never. I just- we never." I sigh my dad understands in fact they have both been the most understanding parents I could ask for since I turned up a little over a month ago with a tiny bump and sobbing for the man that I ached for.
They said they would back me whatever but, the smile on their faces when I announced that I was keeping the baby was unlike anything I had ever seen.
"It's all such a mess. I left him a freaking note! Told him to forget about me and find somebody new."
"He hasn't."
"Mom- What are you talking about?"
The look of guilt crosses her face. "I spoke to him last night and told him you were here he's coming baby. He's coming to see you today."
What. "Did you tell him about?"
"No. I just said that it was important he see you."
I breathe heavily in and out as they both kiss my fore-head "Whatever happens Rach we'll be here."
Two hours later my parents have left the house for a few hours on my plea when the bell rings. Blind panic or maternal instinct but, I cannot help the rub of my belly that inevitably happens as I open the door and am faced by Dex.
"Rachel." He looks at me like I've risen from the dead. "Hi." I manage tearfully, before stammering "You better come in.""Uh- My parents are out would you like something to drink?" My manners kick in as he stands opposite me in the room that has been unchanged since we moved here.
"No. No Rachel I wanna know why the HELL you've been ignoring my calls and texts for over a month and why you never came back after break. Hell, I found out from your mother that you'd deferred and you needed to see me. Because it was important."
He looks great if emotionally distressed in my favourite cashmere sweater and cologne my hormones are going crazy. Everything it's just too much.
"Dex-"
His expression softens as he sees that I have genuinely missed him that I never stopped.
"I never stopped loving you." I say when he warmly embraces me.
"Then why?" He says before placing almost primal kisses on my lips they are hard, desperate and full of love. "Because, I'm pregnant."
He pulls away from me and for a moment I fear my nightmares have come true.
"I get it. If you need time and space and I'm sorry I kept this from you but, I'm ready for this baby. I feel it growing every-day and I love it." "I'm in love with you and our baby I just thought you deserved the truth before…."
"Before I what?" "Never in a million years will I leave your side Rachel White. I'm crazy about you. And the baby… It's everything. You're everything."
"Really?"
"We can do this just promise me you won't ever leave me again."
"Pinky swear." Right then he placed a loving kiss on my tummy and said the two most perfect words. "Hello baby."