Chapter 26

• Poppy says it so loudly I think all of Atlanta hears. Mateo seems to have a slight grin on his face, but I’m fully mortified with all the employees around, and I’d like to just crawl under a desk and die. My mind quickly wanders to things outside the office—Ryan will think I got pregnant on purpose to get him back. Holy hell, I’ve got myself freaked the fuck out now, and I start to pace. Every other time I’ve been pregnant, it had been planned, and thought out, like everything else in my life. Ryan and I had talked about it. I had cute ways of telling him. It was never a surprise, never a shock. I tell myself over and over again there’s no way I could be pregnant. I’m supposed to be working on my sex bucket list, not a baby registry.
• Poppy tells everyone to get back to work, and then she pulls me and Dash into her office and closes the door. She grabs my arms to calm me, and I reward her with my word vomit. “I didn’t poke a hole in your condom,” I pant out.
• “Of course you didn’t, honey,” Poppy says. “And I didn’t. And Dash didn’t, either. So everything should be good?”