Baby Buddies: A BWWM Pregnancy Romance

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Author: Tasha Blue
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    Hannah’s face fell and she put a hand to her head in guilt. “I had no idea, Anaya!” she gasped. “Why didn’t you tell us so that we could get a cake in?”
    Anaya laughed. “I didn’t want a fuss this year,” she said. “Honestly, nothing could be a better gift than some romantic time alone with Jakob. It’s been too long since we’ve made some real time for each other.”
    “Well, have an amazing time, Anaya,” Hannah said. “You deserve it.”
    Hannah and the other writers and editors left and Anaya put on her coat and locked up the offices for the night. She headed outside in her dress, her heels, and her coat, and waited expectantly for Jakob to pull up at the curb to take her for dinner. She couldn’t keep the smile off her face as she stood patiently on the sidewalk. She imagined the perfect evening ahead of her. Jakob would show up dressed in a suit and would smile when he saw her. Perhaps he would have brought her roses for her birthday. He would take her to the kind of restaurant where wine was tasted before it was chosen and there were three sets of silver and they would reminisce over old times as they toasted college years. Then with a giddy head and a happy heart, he would take her somewhere to dance and then as the night came to the end a slow song would come on and they would dance close together... A happy sigh escaped from Anaya’s lips as she fantasized about a glorious evening. It was cold that night and Anaya’s breaths began to turn to frost in the air. She wondered if it was the cold that made it feel like Jakob was taking so long to get here.
    She checked her watch. He was ten minutes late. Still, that wasn’t unusual for Jakob. He had never been the most punctual of men. He was one of those people who felt that everybody should wait for him. Anaya frowned as she waited for him. She was not another one of his business peers and it irritated her that he had no respect for her time even on her birthday. Already she could feel her fantasy slipping away from her and with each painful minute that ticked by she felt all her hopes and expectations being crushed a little more. Each second that he kept her waiting made it less likely that they would be able to salvage the evening. Anaya knew from experience with Jakob that a night that started in anger always ended in a fight.
    The birthday girl waited another ten minutes before pulling out her cell phone to call her boyfriend. It went straight to voicemail. Anaya took deep breaths and willed herself to be patient. Even if he was late, he’d still made the effort after all, she told herself. Anaya began to pace the pavement in front of the magazine’s offices to ward off the cold. It wasn’t a nice part of town and she didn’t feel comfortable standing there on her own as it grew later. A man in a dirty overcoat on the opposite side of the street was looking at her from the corner of his eye and Anaya didn’t want to be on that street any more. Jakob was now forty minutes late and after three more calls, he still hadn’t answered her.
    At last, with tears in her eyes, Anaya gave in and called a taxi to take her home. She felt so stupid to be standing there in a dress and high heels that Jakob would never see, with tears streaming down her face. Anybody who looked at her would know that she was a woman who had put herself out there for a guy. She couldn’t believe that this had happened again. It was not so long ago that she had Jakob had sat down and had a heart-to-heart discussion about their relationship and he had sworn to make more of an effort. That had been when she’d won a runner-up prize in a fashion design competition and he’d showed up an hour late to the awards ceremony, drunk because he’d been out drinking with potential clients. Anaya had forgiven him then, but she swore to herself that this time she wouldn’t let it go. Forgiving Jakob seemed to be all she ever did. There was no time to enjoy his company or

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