Sandy had tried to book an appointment and not tell them about it. After she’d come home from Susie’s, she’d been quiet. Sandy told them on the weekend she would be going out and having a girl’s night, and if she saw either of them once, she would cut off their balls.
Zack reached for her hand again only for her to snarl at him. “Come on, Firebird. We want to be here to hear the good news and know if there is anything you need.”
“I could have told you when I got home. I wanted to come alone and not with two men.”
“Why?”
“Because I don’t want everyone looking at me like they are now.” Sandy’s voice lowered. “You need to both stop touching me. If I’m pregnant, I have no idea who the father is. I was just going to tell my doctor unknown because it’s the truth. I’m scared already that in nine months’ time, one of you is going to leave me because the baby isn’t yours. I love you both too much to lose either of you. So at the moment, I need time to think about everything this baby will change.”
Jake muttered, “How long you been holding all that in?”
Sandy shrugged and wiped at the tears falling down her cheeks.
Zack looked around him, noticing that many of the women were staring at them. Not caring where they were, he lifted her off her seat and sat her on his lap. She let out a quick backhand, hitting his chest. Turning her face to his, he stroked her cheek and leaned down to kiss her tears away.
“Sandy, we are never leaving you no matter what. If the baby is Jake’s, I will still love it just as if it were my own. We could always work for the next one to be mine. But even if all the children you have are Jake’s, that won’t make me leave or love you or the children we have any less. I love you so much, Sandy. I would marry you in a heartbeat.”
She gasped and her eyes went wide. She wrapped her arms around him, and she relaxed against him.
Jake nodded to him before grabbing Sandy and placing her on his lap. He whispered in her ear, “That goes double for me. I even have a ring for you at home. Yesterday I got my first tattoo.” Jake sat her forward and pulled up his shirt. Over his heart it said, “Sandy’s forever.”
“I—”
Sandy was cut off as a doctor said, “Sandy Silverman.”
She got off Jake’s lap, stood up straight, and turned to them holding out both her hands. Zack let out a breath he hadn’t realized he’d been holding. He and Jake both got up and grabbed a hand before following the doctor into the room.
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The doctor confirmed what he and Jake already knew, told her the vitamins she needed to have, and the food and drinks she couldn’t. He’d been a really nice doctor and didn’t even blink when Sandy said they were both the fathers. He nodded his head and told her that when she came back in four weeks’ time, they should be able to do a scan and hear the heartbeat.
They were all home now snuggling on the lounge and watching a movie. Sandy lay happily between them. Zach stroked her hair, and Jake rubbed her feet.
Every now and then Sandy would stare at her hand and the two diamond rings. Zack’s ring had a stone in the middle surrounded by blue sapphires. Jake’s ring fit perfectly with his just the way they’d designed it with diamonds and blue sapphires alternating in a curve around his ring.
They had cooked her an early dinner, and at the end both of them got down on one knee and asked her to marry them. She’d jumped up to hug them, and they’d moved to her bedroom to celebrate.
A knock on her back door had Sandy jackknifing up.
“Who on earth is that? It can’t be my brothers. They just barge in.”
Sandy moved to get up, but Zack held her to him and Jake went to the back door. Minutes later Sandy’s brothers and father come in behind Jake. Zack watched her as she cocked her head to the side and her brow furrowed.
“What’s going on? You never knock.”
Sandy’s father cleared his throat a couple of times, looked at Zack and then at Jake who’d taken his spot next to Sandy.
“Ah, well, you boys have been here for well over a month, and we…I just wanted to know what intentions you have toward my daughter.”
Zack winked at Sandy. “Jake and I are almost done with her here. We all just need to find a bigger place of our own. You have nothing to worry about. She’s not our girlfriend anymore.”
Her father turned bright red and sputtered. “Sandy, baby girl, do you want your brothers and me to get rid of them?” He came forward, but Philip’s eyes widened and he held his father.
Sandy burst into giggles, and got up. “Dad, he’s just playing with you.” She held out her hand to show him her rings. “They asked me to marry them, and I said yes.”