“You’re welcome,” Melanie said, popping a Hershey Kiss in her mouth as she glanced from the man standing next to him, frowning as he stared at Melanie as though he was trying to figure out how he knew her, to the small woman standing in the corner, who was glaring at the asshole next to him while Aidan stood there, regretting so many things, but he had no fucking idea where to start.
“Explain to me why he’s here again,” Kenzie, who’d dropped by a few minutes ago for her follow up appointment, asked as she gestured towards Roger, who was still staring at Melanie.
“To entertain us,” Melanie said as she popped another Hershey Kiss in her mouth while her partner in crime nodded in agreement and murmured, “He really is,” making the bastard’s lips twitch.
“Where do I know you from?” Roger asked, throwing Melanie a curious look before he focused his attention on the iPad in his hands.
“Rum and Coke,” Melanie said with a solemn nod as Aidan watched Roger suddenly go still.
“No one else knows,” Rebecca said, shrugging it off as Roger’s gaze flickered to Kenzie before focusing back on Melanie’s file.
“Knows what?” Kenzie asked, earning matching blank stares from the duo on the bed.
“Knows what?” Melanie repeated back, blinking innocently.
Eyes narrowing, his sister studied Melanie for a moment before shifting her attention to Rebecca and then back again before slowly nodding with a murmured, “I see.”
“That will make this easier,” Melanie said, nodding solemnly.
“It really will,” Rebecca agreed with a sympathetic smile before the duo shifted their attention back to Roger and gestured for him to continue.
“Now, where were we?” Melanie asked as she popped another Hershey Kiss in her mouth.
“We were about to be entertained,” Rebecca said, sending a hopeful look in Kenzie’s direction.
“I just have one question,” Kenzie said, gesturing lazily around the room. “What exactly is going on here?”
Popping another Hershey Kiss in their mouths, the duo looked at him. “Can I see you outside, Kenzie?” Aidan asked, trying to figure out how he was going to explain this.
Actually, what he was really trying to figure out was why his mother hadn’t told everyone yet. His brothers had barely managed to get the words out, letting their mother know that she was about to be a grandmother when she’d started spreading the word, planning baby showers, and sporting a “World’s Greatest Grandma” tee-shirt.
For the past two days, nothing. Not one word, email, or any of his brothers or cousins coming over to fuck with his head, which meant that his mother was fucking pissed. He’d worry about how he was going to make this up to her later, Aidan decided as he moved to step out of the room when the woman who lived to torment him decided that she wasn’t done fucking with him.
“You didn’t tell her the news, pookie?” Rebecca asked, blinking innocently.
“What news?” Kenzie asked right around the time that Melanie closed her eyes on a groan and said, “Don’t,” to her best friend, but Rebecca being evil and all…
“Yeah, what news, Aidan?” Rebecca asked with a calculating look in her eye as she popped another Hershey Kiss in her mouth.
“I’m going to be a father,” Aidan said, shifting his attention to find Kenzie frowning at him before she slowly glanced at Melanie and-
“I’m sorry. Could you repeat that?” Kenzie asked, throwing him a questioning look because she knew better than anyone that he’d never planned on having children.
“He’s going to be a father and I’m going to be a godmother,” Rebecca said, tossing another Hershey Kiss in her mouth.
Kenzie opened her mouth and-
“Wait. Why do you get to be the godmother?” Kenzie demanded with a frown.
Pursing her lips up with a thoughtful expression, Rebecca asked, “What’s her name?” as she gestured towards Melanie, who popped another Hershey Kiss in her mouth with a heavy sigh as Kenzie stood there, frowning and-
“Fair enough,” Kenzie said with a slow nod.
“Moving on,” Rebecca said, shifting her attention back to Roger. She placed a Hershey Kiss in her mouth as she gestured for him to get on with it only to sigh heavily when Kenzie said, “I didn’t even know that you were seeing anyone.”
“You’re really making this too easy,” the epitome of evil said with a shrug and a sad shake of her head.
“We’ll talk about it later,” Aidan said, feeling a headache coming on.
“You don’t want to talk about it now, pookie?” Rebecca asked with a calculating look in her eye.
There was a sigh and then, Rebecca was glaring at Melanie when her best friend took it upon herself to shove a handful of Hershey Kisses in Rebecca’s mouth before she could make this worse. With a regal wave, Melanie said, “You may continue,” as her best friend was forced to sit there, glaring at her as she finished eating the chocolate that had been shoved in her mouth.
“How are you feeling, Melanie?” Roger asked as he continued looking through her file.
“Bored out of my mind,” Melanie said even as she shoved another handful of chocolate in the little troublemaker’s mouth when she opened her mouth to fuck him over.
“How have you been sleeping?”
“Okay,” Melanie said, not quite able to look at him as she shifted and cleared her throat while Aidan narrowed his eyes on her.
“Nausea?”
“Better,” she said, still not quite able to look at him as she answered.
“I can’t help you if you’re going to lie to me,” Roger said, glancing up to find Melanie worrying her bottom lip between her teeth.
“It’s still pretty bad,” Melanie reluctantly admitted.
Nodding absently, Roger said, “Your doctor’s a fucking idiot.”
“That’s what I’ve heard,” Melanie said with a solemn nod.
“What do you think?” Aidan asked, hoping that they could do something to make this easier for her.
“Her numbers look better since your father changed her meds and so does the baby, but I’m concerned about the fact that she’s spent a majority of her pregnancy on bed rest,” Roger said, swiping back to one of her earlier lab reports.
“I told her to get off her lazy ass,” Rebecca said with a sad shake of her head and a sigh as she shoved another Hershey Kiss in her mouth.
“You lying bitch,” Melanie bit out with a glare. “You locked me in my room and gave that obscenely large bastard that you married my mother’s phone number so that he could tattletale on my ass anytime I got out of bed!”
“Again, with the lies?” Rebecca asked with a heartfelt sigh and a pitying shake of her head before she added, “I’ll pray for you.”
“Eat gluten, bitch,” Melanie said, making Rebecca’s lips twitch.
“Can we focus, ladies?” Aidan asked, biting back a sigh even though he was secretly pleased that Melanie was feeling well enough to banter with her best friend, something that he’d noticed that she hadn’t done since she came to live with him.
“I want you off bed rest immediately,” Roger explained as he swiped to another lab report.