At
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Excerpt from
Tentative Steps Forward
Ben and Shad from Ben’s Wolf Surprise
Please understand this is still in first draft, so there had been no
significant editing
Womp womp womp womp.
Holy shit.
Womp womp womp womp.
Ben held his breath, then
realised it probably wasn’t a good idea since he had a baby inside him. Living,
growing. Heartbeat. A heartbeat.
Ben’s chest hurt, heaved as he
looked at the machine where the sound was coming from.
Womp womp womp.
Muffled but in turn. Ben
wanted to believe the sound wasn’t coming from inside him, but at this point
there wasn’t any denying it.
Was he still denying this
pregnancy thing? Probably, it wasn’t like he’d ever thought he’d be pregnant.
But shit man, there was a heartbeat coming out of his belly.
A heartbeat.
Holy shit.
Shad took in a deep breath
next to him, sighing it out in a soft wistful breeze.
Ben lower lips wobbled, his
eyes became pools.
God he was a sappy bastard.
Huh. He was pregnant. With a
baby. His and Shad’s baby.
Heavy shit.
The lady took the microphone
off his stomach and Shad ran his hand against the pale skin, slowly. So slowly,
it felt like awe as he leant down and gave Ben a soft kiss on the lips.
“Can you believe it?”
“No.” Ben laughed against a
sob.
“So everything seems fine. You
and your baby are healthy.”
Ben took in a huge breath as
he sat himself up. He nodded as got up, because he didn’t know what to say. Not
sure what he was meant to say.
“Good.” Shad did that sigh
again, his hand ran up and down Ben’s back. He was comforting, made him not
want to curl up in the other man’s lap and just stay there until all of this
was over. But not, plenty more to do today, this week, the months to come.
The lady with the machines
messed around then, fixing everything up so she could trot back towards her
side of the lot, back towards the Cameron Pack house, leaving them alone in the
shell they were going to call home.