“Go tell ‘em where we are.”
“Right.” Sean flips around and takes quick strides back.
Inside a cheap room like you find in the middle of nowhere, Luke lays me down as I argue, “You’re making a big deal out of nothing. See?” I sit up, dust off my legs. “All better.”
He kneels down, pulls my eyelids back. Laughing I swat him away, but hold onto his hand for a second to reassure him, “You don’t have to worry. I’m not dying.”
“Soph,” he rasps, fingers freed and sliding down my legs to grip my calves. “Don’t even say that out loud.”
The door bangs and he flies up, ushering our crew inside. Celia holds out a wrinkled paper bag she must have been trying to strangle, then whips a pregnancy test from it. “You ready for this?”
My jaw drops.
Luke freezes.
Atlas is staring at his brother, already in on the suspicion.
Sean bites his lips.
“Oh my God,” I whisper as Luke spins around and drops down in front of me again.
“Is it possible?”
“I had my period last month.” Pausing I stare at a wall. “Wait, I had it after the wedding, remember? Then once more. But I don’t think…”
“Is it possible,” he demands again.
“How many times have we used protection?”
His dark eyes go huge and he practically throws me at Celia. “Go go go!”
“Jeezus,” I mutter, disappearing with her, locking the bathroom door and exchanging a look as I lower my voice. “Ceels, what if I am?”
Tearing the cardboard open she mumbles, “Then it’s going to be a beautiful baby.”
I snatch it from her hands, whisper, “What if I’m not any good at it? What if I’m a terrible mother?”
Her shoulders relax. “Sofia, you overestimate yourself in some places and you underestimate yourself in others. Open it. Take the test.”
“Couldn’t you get the cheek swab one? Did you have to go old-school with the pee stick?”
“It’s all they had.”
“What if it’s ancient? Gives the wrong results?”
She points at the toilet. “Go!”
As soon as I pull my jeans up I’m rushing for the door. “He has to watch it turn colors with me.”
Pacing, Luke drops his arms when he sees me, rushes forward. “Well?”
I hold it up. “In two minutes our lives could change forever?”
He grabs my wrist. “Look!”
The damn thing is already a plus symbol.
We stare at it.
Dumbfounded.
Shocked.
Luke locks onto me at the same time I look at him. We go ape shit, jumping and screaming with joy.
Ceels starts laughing. Atlas, too. Sean just grins and shakes his head.
My husband wraps me in his arms, lifts me off the ground and murmurs into my heart, “We’re starting a family of our own, Soph! We’re going to have a baby.”
Maybe it’s the onset of morning sickness. Maybe I’m tired. But tears stream down my face in an avalanche that takes me and everyone but Luke, by surprise. “I’m going to be a mother! God help the little soul.”
Laughing, Luke kisses the tears from my cheeks. “I love you, Soph.”
Throwing my arms around his neck I burrow into him. “I think I want this.”
“Pretty sure you do,” he whispers. “You didn’t cry at our wedding.”
“You, I knew! This baby is a whole new person. What if she doesn’t like me?”
“She?”
“With all the hell I gave my mother, it’s gonna be a girl, Luke!”
He reassures me, “We’re having a baby, and whoever he or she is, we’re gonna love ‘em like crazy. And not just us, but the whole, huge, Cipher family will help us find our way.”
Like the antidote to doubt, his reminder about the Ciphers and all of the support they give us and each other, relaxes my shoulders, expels doubt from my heart, and gives me the ability to be shockingly happy I’m going to be a mother.
And that Luke—my friend from childhood, now lover, husband and partner until the end—will be the father of my child.
Even through all of the terrifying situations I’ve been in, and all the good I’ve done in the world, when I told Luke I loved him, that was when I began the scariest and most rewarding adventure of my life.
Seven months later, Karma hands me a beautiful kick in the ass, with ten tiny toes and fingers, the middle one extended.
Kenzie Luna-Sol Cocker-Martinez blinks up at me with a dark fringe of eyelashes and the cutest smile with silent promises of how she’ll change our lives.
For better or worse…not sure yet.
We love a challenge.
THE END.
I hope you enjoyed Sofia Sol & Luke.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Contents
Epigraph
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
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