Erica

“I’ll do it,” she said before she could talk herself out of it.

His dimples flashed as he slapped a hand over his heart in mock surprise. “Just like that?”

“Did you want me to argue with you first?”

“Hell no, but I had pictured this conversation going somewhat differently. You’d get all offended I didn’t think you could do your job and then you’d get all pissed off and accuse me of trying to be the boss of you and then…”

“And then?”

“And then I had kinda pictured us having make-up sex. And then christening-the-new-office-chair sex. And maybe christening-the-old-office-desk sex because, as far as I know, it was never christened. And—”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours

“When the reception was over I went for a walk and…she’s pregnant.”

They were both quiet a moment, exchanging one of those old-married-people looks he still couldn’t decipher, but which made him squirm. He and Beth were both adults, but that didn’t make telling his parents he’d accidentally gotten a woman pregnant any easier.

“Lot easier to walk with your fly zipped,” Leo grumbled.”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours

“It's a good thing you don't bring Lily in to the bar. If they see what a beautiful baby you made, we'll have to double our napkin orders."
He propped his elbows on the bar so his face was very close to hers.
"I can't make magic like Lily with any woman but you.”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours