Chapter 30: Chapter Thirty

I'm one hell of a sentimental woman. The number of times I spend flicking through the different albums that we have.

I know this is the future and you can have all your pictures online and, on my phone, but I still love the idea of physically having an album to be able to flick through.

This album was specifically for the trips that I and Nate took together. The business has been settling down since he decided to point new managers for his projects, he only makes the big decisions now. I'm not saying I'm pleased I knew he enjoyed getting into the business, but I was thankful that he wanted to spend more time with me and travel together.

After the honeymoon, we really enjoyed travelling and we wanted it to be a more common thing. We invited George and Tammy to travel with us for 2 weeks and that was probably the best weeks since our honeymoon.

It's about a month since Nate and I said our vows and got married. Every day we treasure and make sure that we tell each other everything and try and make compromises. I do try but my smart mouth tends to get me over Nate's shoulder.

No change there.

"I told you this last night, Cameron is being awarded tonight" apparently Nate wasn't aware of where we were going when he saw me dressed up real fancy.

"Not the best time to tell me something like that Loretta and you know it" he just returned from the gym and was currently wearing his workout clothes and we needed to leave in the next 30 minutes otherwise we'd be late.

"Whatever just shower and get ready, "I say over my shoulder before walking out the room and heading downstairs.

It's quite embarrassing to think about the countless times Nate's had me quivering from his deep hard thrusts. Something changed within us, and we were even worse than before.

Nate wanted to drive to the event tonight because, well actually I'm not quite sure he just said that he didn't want to be driven today. As Nate was just coming out of the shower the door phone rang.

"Can you get that Loretta?" he shouts but quickly lowers his voice when he realizes, I'm literally a few steps away from him.

"Any louder" I mumbled, walking over to the door.

A monotone voice says that we have a delivery, so I open the door and find a guy holding two boxes in his hands.

"What was it," Nate asks coming through to the living room. He has a simple suit on with his top 2 buttons undone leaving me to swallow my drool. I still never get tired of seeing him.

"a delivery apparently, did you order anything" I asked Nate. Only last week was he complaining about the number of deliveries that were being sent here.

"Oh, actually I think I know what this is, I can tell from the packaging" apparently Nate didn't want to tell me what it was. I got so excited that I went a and opened the other box instead of waiting for him to tell me.

"It says my name on it," I say surprised when I flip over a little card that was laying on top.

"Knew it" Nate exclaims holding out a trainer that looks oddly familiar. A famous brand had sent both me and Nate our own personalized trainers to wear. In response to Nate helping them redesign their home in France.

"Well, are you ever going to wear them?" hate to be rude but I don't see Nate casually wearing trainers often, maybe the odd occasion but rarely.

"Probably it depends" he shrugs his shoulders before taking the boxes out to the trash.

Looking towards the clock I decided we either leave now or we're going to be late. Nate was already thinking that because he grabbed his keys and was already walking out the house.

A few weeks after the wedding we sold my house and moved into a temporary house. Nate had been working hard in building a house for us and our future but for the time being we were staying in this house not far from Nate's office. I giddily slid into Nate's newest car which was an Aston martin.

You wouldn't believe my surprise when one night Nate pulled into the drive in this brand-new car on his return from Germany.

Nate with cars is like me with clothes and makeup. The new Anastasia Beverly hills pallet had my name all over it when I walked into Sephora last week. I am positive.

Smiling we both made our way onto the road and hurried to the location of the event. We still needed to get through all the media.

There has been a lot of rumors surfacing about possible babies because I've taken a few trips to the hospital with Nate. I'm currently on the special pills now so we're just praying for a miracle now.

We Finally arrived at the main hall after many questions being fired at us, we found our seats as the show was about to begin. Cameron was getting an award and we was lucky to be quite close to the stage. We found George and Tammy and of course Angela sitting there already.

I don't miss the heavy sigh of relieve when George spotted us, and I frown at the disbelief that our best friend had of us.

When a little video clip showed when Cameron was accepting the award both myself and Nate were surprised that they used footage of mine and Nate's engagement.

Very interesting Angela was borderline in tears when Cameron finished his speech and left the stage. We all walked up to him after the show ended and gave him our support.

"Does this new fame mean I'm losing a photographer "I joke to him and hold his award in my hands. Amazed that he won but really, I should not be too surprised because he is truly talented. I am glad that he is finally being recognized for his work.

"You know I could never do that, but I might be a little bit busier" well I knew that already. That's a given.

"No honestly thanks for everything guys glad you could make it," Cam says raising his voice slightly. Nate and I weren't quite sure why he went so loud but when George came over and place a tenner in Cam's hand we knew exactly why.

"Seriously George" he rubs his neck a sense of nervousness as we both glare daggers at him.

"C'mon it was a little thing in my defense you were late" he tries to defend himself, but Cameron only makes it worst for him.

"You made the bet last night" George went over and smacked Cameron around the head the obvious way of telling him to shut the fuck up.

The two never fail to amuse me.

After we celebrated with a few drinks I decided to have a little girl's night so we're going to stay in a hotel just us girls.

"I've got a meeting in the morning we can grab lunch after," Nate says to me when I'm just finishing my drink as Tammy and Angela stand outside with their guys.

"Sure, I don't have anything planned so I guess that would work fine," I say thinking about the several meetings I have coming up.

I haven't been able to do many meetings recently so I've planned a few this coming week to keep me busy since Nate is taking a trip to Thailand which he said would take up all his time.

Nate didn't want to leave yet, and I could tell.

"The girls are waiting for me," I say pointing to the eager girls although I can see their knowing smirks. It's obvious that Nate has a certain possessiveness to me.

I lean up and kiss him, a good night kiss. He grabbed a hold of my neck and pulled my body against him.

"Nate" he leaves my lips meanwhile licking his because I slightly bit him.

"That was very naughty of you Loretta" what can I say I'm a rebel.

"Good night darling" he mumbles finally letting me go. I feel his eyes on my back as I walk away from him.

"Stop staring "I call out to him as I reach the door. He looks up at me with a mischievous smile on his lips.

"I will not" he confirms eyes lifting to consider mine.

I finally walk out of the door and meet the girls.

"Think it's time for a little catch-up," Tammy says driving us to the hotel we booked just minutes ago. Nate let us use his card which I was thankful for. Tammy had the cheek to ask for money for breakfast and Nate struggled to say no.

"Nate is so easy to persuade I completely forgot," Tammy says leaning against the elevator waiting for it to take us to the floor we needed.

"Not like Loretta needs to persuade" Angela jumps into the conversation.

"All she needs is this cute little number and he's gone" she makes a rocket motion with her hands.

"Where's Nate?" Tammy says dramatically looking around. Her eyes drop to my legs. "Oh, that's right in-between the legs" I roll my eyes at their behavior. It's not a secret of the sexual attraction Nate and I have, even around our friends.

"Shut up" I call out to them as the elevator opens. Their giggles are the only sounds I hear as swipe the key card through the door and open it up.

"Loretta are you okay in there" Angela calls out to me from outside of the bathroom door. I can hear Tammy running up to the door before banging lightly on it.

Her voice sounds tired but concerned. "Loretta are you being sick, honey let us in" she coaxes as I sit leaning over the toilet.

Maybe it was the drinks and foods we had last night I don't normally drink that much so that could be a reason why.

"I don't know girls maybe it was the drinks," I say before reaching forward and unlocking the door. Tammy rushes in and quickly comes to my side. Angela grabs hold of my hair and tying it in a ponytail.

Sweet.

"But you only had two glasses surely it wouldn't make you this sick," she says coming to face me.

She has a worried expression on her face before suddenly her eyes widen quickly and she scrambles up and runs out of the room leaving both of us confused.

Angela leaves me to see what's going on and I could just about hear their muffled voices.

"She can't be...can she" I hear Angela's voice a little too excited but apprehensive.

"there's a chance" Tammy replies, I flush the toilet grimacing at the horrible smell of vomit. I was about to swing the door open when Tammy comes into the door frame and has a box in her hands.

I move my eyes down and read the name, my eyes snap to hers and I can't believe I didn't think about this. I also want to know why she has a pregnancy test with her I mean were at a hotel and she only had her handbag with her.

"Please, Loretta just try it." She shoves the box in my hands before pushing me back into the toilet. Angela follows in behind. They're both very eager to consider the possibility that I could be pregnant.

"When did you last have sex?" Tammy asks as I start to remove the test out of the box. I think back and try to pinpoint it. Fortunately, it didn't take long, we've been going at it like rabbits recently.

"Yesterday morning I think," I say to her finally staring at the pregnancy test in my hands. Not believing that I'm actually doing this.

"Told you," Angela says lightening the mood slightly.

Both of them left the room to give me some privacy I wait and waited until finally, it was time to look. Taking a deep breath, I slowly opened my eyes and peeked down to see the result.

To find out if I'm pregnant with Nate's baby or not.

I quickly walk out of the bathroom and find nervous yet excited girls sitting at the edge of the bed holding hands like some nervous sorority girls waiting for a verdict.

My hands instantly felt sweaty as I gripped the pregnancy stick tightly.

"I'm pregnant" my voice is barely audible as I walk out. My mind is at a loss right now. There's a moment of silence before they both start screaming, jumping up and down before running towards me and wrapping their arms around me.

"Are you crying," I ask Tammy feeling the teardrops on my t-shirt.

"Maybe, "she says sniffling.

"I'm just so happy for you Loretta" Angela moves back to sit back on the sofa. She looks at us fondly as we share this embrace. After a few minutes, we all sit in the back of a taxi and make our way to the Nevada.

Obvious reason. To tell my mum of the news. Just to make sure were going to head over to the hospital to have an ultrasound just to make sure. I don't want to go to tell Nate just yet because you never know with these tests.

Walking into the lobby I call out to dad "Where's mum?" he lifts his head up from the book he was reading whilst standing next to the receptionist, Laura.

"She's in the first conference room, is everything alright honey?" he says watching me with concern.

"Oh yeah everything's fine I want to take mum out for lunch that's all," I lie to him, feeling a little guilty. I didn't want to tell dad yet either because he tends to get his hopes up quite a lot and I don't want to let him down.

"Alright, just be wary she's in one of those moods again," he says as he turns away from mom. I laugh at the sudden change in the volume of his voice. Obviously, he's scared that mom would hear him.

Tammy and Angela said that they would check in with me later, they wanted it to just be me and my mum to which I was grateful for.

"Hello, my baby," mum says seeing me walk into the room. When she locks eyes with me, she's suddenly frowning and starts checking all over for any signs of distress.

"Loretta honey what's wrong?" I smile, my mum literally knows me so well.

"I find it quite disturbing that you're smiling right now," she walks closer to me rubbing my cheek from the fallen tear that I didn't notice before.

"Talk to me," she pushes on. With one more breath in and out. I remove my hand out from my bag and hand her the test that's wrapped up in tissue. She carefully opens it up before stepping back suddenly probably out of shock.

"Baby, no, please don't joke," she says finally looking at me. She didn't give it back to me. She did something unexpected.

"Daniel!" she shouts looking at the direction of the door I just came through.

"you're pregnant "she screams wrapping her arms around me in a tight embrace.

Dad finally enters the room eyes glued to his phone but still looking around just making sure he doesn't bump into anything.

"Darling, darling," she chants waving the test around like it's some toy. Doesn't she realize that I had just recently peed on that stick.

"What?" Dad questions confused at mum's sudden change in mood. His eyes move from my mum to the test she now placed on the table right in front of him.

He didn't say anything for about 2 minutes straight and honestly, I wasn't quite sure what was going on in his brain. I had hoped that he wasn't disappointed in me.

It took us having to walk out for him to finally come back to his senses. When we were about to get to the entrance two strong arms wrapped themselves around my waist. I was lifted into the air and spun around just like he used to do when I was little.

Mum looks on with tears in her eyes.

"Dad it's not for certain but yes" his eyes twinkle and I don't think I've ever seen him this giddy in my life.

"I'll drive, let's go" he says pulling both of us through the doors of the hotel. He ran over to the range rover sitting in the carpark and ushered me in. A great massive grin on his face.

Mum sat in the back with me. Her hand secured in mine.

I really hope I am pregnant.

The doctor added the cold gel onto my belly and moved it around she had all three of us in suspense. She stopped suddenly and looked at the screen intently before turning to me "you're 6 weeks pregnant Loretta congratulations" 6 weeks, what? Fucking hell, I've been living for six weeks without knowing I'm pregnant with Nate's baby.

"Thank you, doctor," my dad says to him shaking his hand in a firm grip, my mum follows behind her arm around my shoulder.

"Dad can you drop me off at the office?" I ask him as he pulls out of the hospital. Both my parents who are now sitting in front share the same expression before agreeing to drop me off there before they head back to the hotel.

"Miss, you can't go in there," a woman says coming to stand in front of me. This little witch has made me sit in this bloody waiting room because he's in a meeting and now she says I can't go to see my husband.

"Mrs. Tesoro can do whatever she pleases," a voice says from the left of me. I turn and find Kyle walking through with her phone in her left-hand. She manages to type away even with walking and talking. She amazes me every time.

Realization hits her as she finds out that I am his wife. Yes, bitch that's me.

"Oh, excuse me I'm so sorry "she quickly rushes off into her office. Both I and Kyle watch her form until it disappears.

"Is she knowing?" I ask Kyle who just nods her head leading me into Nate's section of the building. I say hello to a few people I recognize. I've met them at appearances and stuff.

"Loretta darling," I familiar voice says grabbing a hold of my shoulders. I cringe at the voice I remember.

"Harry" I greet him turning around to face him. He looks different to when I last saw him. He's now sporting black hair and has some geeky glasses on. Does he think people will like his just because he looks like a geek Where's the braces Harry.

"Run along now" Kyle says to him with a disgusted look directed at him. Harry just smirks at her before wrapping his arm around her waist and walking her through the double doors at the end of the corridor.

That man is literally the devil no wonder why he's not married, heck he doesn't even have a girlfriend.

Harry spends more time working with Nate. Call it a long-term debt to Nate after everything that happened.

Taking a deep breath, I turn and start heading towards Nate's office. I hope he's done with his big meeting; I've got some very important news.

"Loretta darling what are you doing here" Nate calls out to me lifting his head from his laptop. He studies me intently before rising from his desk and taking strong steps towards me until he's standing right in front of me.

He cradles my face in his strong hands kissing me lightly to which I want to continue. I grab a hold on his hair and pull him back to my lips.

"Dinner tonight, I want to cook you something" I fiddle with my fingers against his big desk table. I debate whether telling him here right now, but I actually thought surprising him would suit us better.

when did we ever do anything the easy way anyway?

I didn't give him any time to object or say anything else I just left a kiss on his left cheek before walking out of his office and then the whole building before heading over to our house.

The time came to 9 in the evening and Nate hadn't showed up yet. I had dressed in a cute dress that showed off my long legs and I just wore simple diamond earrings that Nate bought me a few weeks ago. After my slight hints over the last few months.

I was about to call him when I heard the gates to our complex opening and Nate's Aston Martin drive through. My chest urged me to scratch at it. I was borderline giddy when I saw Nate walk out of the car and head to the front door. He didn't know what I was about to hit him with.

I spent the last few hours reading on pregnancy and babies. I made sure that I hid the books for a while, until I actually told him.

Walking into the house Nate looked tired. I don't how tonight was going to plan out I don't expect anything from tonight I just want to tell him that's all. 

I managed to make a Chinese dish. A healthy version to what he's used to at the takeaway.

Nate went upstairs to have a shower and get comfortable, so I got the plan in motion. It was all prepared for when he came down the stairs.

As I was setting up the table, I was joined by him, I could feel his body behind me. Watching me intently.

"How was work" I ask him. I guess I could make normal chit chat first. Before dropping the baby bomb.

"The usual we are doing a big deal next month that's why I had a lot of meetings today even Harry popped in,” he mentions to which I already knew obviously.

"Yes, he said hello to me as he was walking out" I told him. When I turned to look at him, he nodded his head before walking up to me and wrapping his arms around my waist.

" Hello beautiful" he mumbles pressing his lips to mine. I melt into his hold and kiss him back. Stepping away I ask him to get something out of the oven. I hoped I sounded as calm as I had planned.

"What is it?" he asks walking into the kitchen. I don't say anything I just wait for him to open it.

There was a moment of silence after I heard him open the oven. "Loretta what is this...are you joking?" I all but laugh to myself but I also feel nervous. Nate suddenly appears out of the kitchen with the single bun in his hand.

He has his hand covering his mouth and has a few tears in his eyes. "Are you serious?" he asks taking slow strong strides towards me.

I indeed have a bun in the oven.

I grab his hand and move it towards my belly.

"Yes. I'm pregnant, 6 weeks." When the words left my mouth, Nate dropped to his knees leaning his forehead against my belly.

"I can't believe it. We're going to be parents," he mumbles against me.

The tears finally start flowing and I cry with happiness. "You're going to be an amazing father Nate," I say turning my fingers through his hair.

I pull him up and take my time in pressing my lips to his. He kisses me back. I grab His shirt and drag him over to the sofa's that are in the lounge.

"Loretta,” he moans when I shove him on the sofa and settle myself on his lap.

He moves my t-shirt past my shoulder and peppers kisses on my neck. I watch him literally make out with my neck.

"How are you 100% sure?" he asks me lifting his eyes up to meet mine. Confusion clear in his eyes.

"I went with my parents today to see the doctor and he confirmed it." When I admitted this, Nate’s eyes narrowed, and his grip tightened.

Shit.

"And you didn't let me come with you? Loretta," he growls slightly angry with me.

"Sorry," I say kindly, rubbing his jaw. I know I should have brought him but honestly, I wanted it to be a surprise. He takes a deep breath before smiling at me again.

"We're going to be parents," he exclaims pulling me close into his lap ignoring the fact that our food is getting cold. Food wasn't important right now.

"Yes, we are," I reply to him and even though the concept of being a mother scares me. I knew that I wasn't alone, I had Nate with me, and I knew that whatever we were about to go through. We were going to get through it together. As a couple, As man and wife. 

And ultimately mother and father.