Married To The Wrong Twin のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 41 - チャプター 46

I made it almost to lunch before Theo cornered me properly, which was longer than I expected, given the week I'd apparently been visibly having."You've redrawn the same stair detail three times," he said, not looking up from his own desk. "And you keep touching your stomach when you think I'm not looking. Twice in the last hour alone."I stopped, my hand still resting exactly where he'd just accused it of resting, and felt something in my chest give way before I'd fully decided to let it."Close the door."He did, slowly, something careful moving across his face like he already half suspected what was coming and wasn't sure yet whether to be happy about it."Odessa.""I'm pregnant." I said it plainly, the way I hadn't managed to say it to anyone yet, not even fully to myself. "Confirmed yesterday. I haven't told anyone. I'm not entirely sure why I'm telling you first, except that I genuinely didn't have anyone else I actually wanted to tell."Something in his face did several things

Callum's mom answered the door herself again, same as the first time, and pulled me into a hug before I'd even gotten both feet over the threshold."You look well," she said, studying me with the particular attentiveness she'd had since the reinstatement mess, like she was still cataloguing evidence that everything had actually turned out alright. "Doesn't she look well, Roland.""She looks like a woman who's about to be asked forty invasive questions about her diet," Roland said, appearing behind her with considerably more ease than I remembered from a few months ago, something steadier in the way he moved now. "Ignore my wife. She's been rehearsing grandmother behavior on the dog for weeks in anticipation of eventually having a real target.""We don't have a dog.""The neighbor's dog. It's been deeply confused by the attention.""That's a slight exaggeration.""It is not. The poor animal looked at me with actual pity last week, Roland, like it understood something about the state of

"Hey," Callum said, shrugging out of his jacket, and I watched him take me in for a beat too long before he said anything else, though whatever he saw, he let it pass without comment for now. "Good day.""Fine. Yours.""Long." He didn't come around the island the way he usually did, just stood there a moment, something deliberate in it. "I've been thinking about the other night. The conversation Voss interrupted. I don't want to let it just sit there unfinished indefinitely, pretending neither of us remembers exactly where we left off.""Callum.""I'm not trying to ambush you the second I walk through the door. I'd simply like to actually finish it tonight, if you're willing. The office. Whatever it is you were about to ask me before my phone rang." He said it carefully, watching my face for permission to keep going. "You said you needed to know what actually happened that evening, and then Voss called, and we've both been quietly pretending that conversation resolved itself, which it