All Chapters of Pregnant After One Night With My Brother's Best Friend : Chapter 21 - Chapter 23

Emery's POVI don't know what happens to me at that moment.One second I'm frozen, shocked into stillness, and the next my body is moving entirely without my permission, my hands sliding up into Alaric's jacket, my mouth opening under his like some starving, seven year old wound in me has finally, finally gotten what it's been begging for since I was fourteen years old.He kisses me the way he never did that night in the dark hotel room. Slow. Deliberate. Like he's memorizing the shape of my mouth instead of trying to forget it. His hand cradles my jaw, thumb brushing along my cheekbone, and something in my chest breaks open wide and warm, seven years of carefully built walls collapsing all at once under the weight of one single kiss.I kiss him back.I kiss him back like I've been waiting my whole life to do exactly this, like the anger from twenty minutes ago never happened, like Joan isn't sitting alone at a restaurant table right now wondering what he did wrong, and this man stand

Emery's POVThe weekend crawls by in careful, deliberate avoidance.I don't see Alaric once, not really. I hear him some mornings, the shower running down the hall, the quiet clink of a mug in the kitchen before I make myself wait an extra ten minutes before coming down myself. He seems to be doing the same thing in reverse, timing his own movements around mine, both of us circling the house like two people who've agreed without ever saying so out loud that facing each other right now would be unbearable.I'm grateful when Finn walks through the door on Sunday night, duffel bag over one shoulder, exhausted but grinning from a win I only half register him describing. His presence fills the house back up with something normal, something loud and uncomplicated, and Monday morning I hand Muna off to him with more relief than I probably should feel. "You good?" Finn asks, tying Muna's shoe at the door. "You've been weird all weekend.""Just tired," I say, which isn't a lie so much as it'