Taking One for the Team (The Team #1)

CHAPTER SIX

I smiled. "It was never an option."

"Good." He kissed my lips. Drawing back he asked, "So who's the father."

I pushed away from his hold with a huff. "Remember when I asked you what was going on with you and Ashley and you told me to wait and you'd tell me when our relationship was sturdy?"

"I remember saying something like that."

"Well, if your not breaking up with me I'm telling you the same thing. Wait for me to feel comfortable in our relationship then I'll tell you anything you wanna know."

Alex crossed his arms over his chest and took steps to stand right in front of me. "Comfortable?"

"I wanna feel like you won't leave me even after I tell you who the father is." My shoulders slumped as I admited this to him. I hate feeling...weak.

He dropped his arms and drew me into his body once again. "Baby, get comfortable because nothing outside of you personally breaking my heart on purpose is going to make me leave you." He kissed my brow then brought my head to rest on his chest.

We stayed this way for a while before Alex spoke again. "Is it too much to ask if I can stay the night?"

Pulling back as far as his hold would let me, I looked into his eyes and grinned. "No, it's not too much but what about clothes?"

"I have an overnight bag in my car, let me go get it."

Alex released me and searched for his car keys in my couch cushions. I smacked his butt with my opened palm and asked, "Why are so prepared? Is staying that night with a girl you literally just met normally for you?" I was joking but I was also worried about the answer I'd get.

Finding his keys, Alex turned to face me, a huge smile on his face. "I have an overnight bag for when I stay over at Nathan's place. I got sick of stealing his clothes so I made sure to keep some of my own in the car. Be right back." He pecked me on the lips and ran out to his car.

When he cleared the door, I walked to my room and prepared for my bath. As I ran the water, wrapped my hair and undress, I looked at my body through my full-length mirror. My boobs were still the same size, maybe my butt looked a little fuller, but for sure I began to form a baby bump. Nothing that would be noticed with my clothes on but enough that I could recognise a life was growing inside me.

Knock knock

The door pushed open a little bit. I quickly covered myself with my towl. "Hey, you okay in- oops, sorry. I thought you got sick again or something." A blush tinted his cheeks.

"Ha, no I'm fine, just taking a bath."

"Alright." And he closed the door softly.

I was a little nervous about him seeing my hair wrapped because I didn't wanna explain the mechanics of black woman hair to a white man. But he didn't even blink twice. Maybe he's been with a black girl before. I thought. I didn't like the idea of him being with anyone else other than me so I quickly dismissed the thought.

I lay in my pearl white claw foot tub for nearly half an hour, slowly bathing myself, thinking about Alex and Matthew and where to go from here.

Eventually the water began to cool so I dressed in my bathroom then made my way to my bedroom. The sight that greeted me was magnificent. Alex lay shirtless in my bed wearing low-rise plaid pajama pants, arms behind his head, watching television. He looked like this was where he was supposed to be. As if he does it every night.

"You gonna just stand there all night checking me out?" He asked.

Clearing my head of the naughty things I wished for him to do to me, I made my way to the bed.

Alex, of course, noticed my hesitation. Sitting up, he asked, "Does my sleeping here make you uncomfortable, I can sleep in your guest bedroom."

"You leave this bed except to pee and I'll break your legs like the woman did in Misery.

Alex laid back down and I hopped into bed. When I was situated under the covers, I turned off the light on the bedside table on my side and Alex followed suit. Then, not knowing how Alex felt about cuddling, I gave him my back. As soon as I was comfortable, Alex rolled and covered my back with his body, his left arm wrapped around my waist and his right arm lay under his head. And that's how we slept, in a spooning position.

My heart quicked at the contact but at that rightness of it all, I settled quickly. "Goodnight, Baby." Alex said, and kissed the spot below my ear.

"Goodnight." I softly sighed.

Maybe it was having the weight of telling people about my pregnancy being lifted off my chest, or maybe it was because I was laying in Alex's arms, but that night, I got the best sleep ever.

Alexander

Renee's little snores filled them room as she slept.

I'm glad Renee told me about the baby before we got to serious. She could have tried to pin it on me and being the fool I am, I would've never noticed the baby being born too early. How am I supposed to tell her about me and Ashley. We're not together anymore and I would never cheat on her but that's not gonna make her feel better when in tell her there's a possiblity the baby Ashley carries could be mine. I have to carefully plan my approach and wait for the right moment to tell her. Yeah, I stuck by her, she'll stick by me.

Feeling content in my thoughts, I tightened my arm around her middle and followed her to sleep.