King - Page 192

She’d found out recently that she was in fact having twins. Cash had been gloating ever since, while Kytten pouted, in between her bouts of panic at being able to carry two babies inside her small frame.

“Here they are.”

I stopped pacing, my back to the computer. I took a deep breath and turned around. When I stood behind her, she lifted her finger and directed me to the results.

I inhaled sharply and closed my eyes. Tears slipped out and fell down my cheeks.

“Do you want me to go with you?”

“No.” I shook my head. “I can do this.”

She stood up and wrapped her arms around me. Her belly pressed against mine, and I blew out a breath. “We’ve got you, Grace. All of us—the men and especially the women.”

“Thank you.”

I closed the door of the infirmary and placed my hand against the wall. I was a little lightheaded, but I steeled my resolve andpushed myself forward. When I made it up the stairs, I began my search for King.

I found him in his office with Cash. They both looked up and saw the tears. Cash nodded and left without a word, pausing to kiss the top of my head. He knew what today was, even though his president didn’t.

“Grace, what’s wrong?” He moved around the desk until he was in front of me. Holding my face in his hands, he used his thumbs to wipe away the tears. “What happened, Grace? Is it the baby?”

I nodded. “I had Kytten run the test.”

“Why didn’t you tell me? I wanted to be there for you, baby.” He pulled me against his chest. “Do you know?”

I nodded against him, and he hugged me tighter.

“Whatever it said, we handle it together. Nothing has changed.”

“Everything has changed, King.”

He pushed me back and looked down at me. The smile on my face told him everything. He smiled back and whispered, “I’m a dad?”

“You’re a dad. We’re having a baby, King. You and me.”

He lifted me off the ground, spun me around, and kissed me hard before setting me back down.

“Fuck, you know what this means?”

His voice was so serious I began to get nervous; was he not happy like he said he would be?

“I’ll never get rid of Sal now. And forget Popeye ever going home.”

I sobbed out a laugh and laid my head on his shoulder. “We’ll just have to learn to deal with them both.”

“You, you’ll need to learn to deal with them. I’m not the one they’ll be hovering over.”

“They can’t be any worse than you,” I argued.

After the second attack, King’s controlling nature had skyrocketed. Not just with me, but all the women. Hell, all the men, too. No one was allowed out alone; he’d ordered a mandatory four-man team, more if one of the women had to go somewhere.

He wasn’t taking any chances. He said he refused to lose anyone else. I agreed with him. Other than visiting Johnny and Maureen at the hospital, I hadn’t left the compound since we came back from the waterfall. There was nothing outside these walls more important to me than my family.

And now, the child I carried.

Our child.