Today’s excerpt is from Dead
Silent Calm, Book #7 of the nine-book Janitors Series. Our old Russian bear finds out he has made
Suzan pregnant…and doesn’t handle the news too well. Enjoy and have a great day.
m.j.
Just as they had
finished rehashing the plan, Suzan, who’d abruptly left the group and just
returned, looked at Boris, who’d just stood up.
“Well, you silly old fool, you got me pregnant.”
Boris looked
dumbfounded. “What. What.
How? Oh, I know how you
get pregnant. I meant how do you know?”
“I missed my
last period and got one of the home test kits.
We’ve got a dead rabbit in our room.”
“Rabbit. Rabbit!
I don’t care about any damn rabbits!”
That brought
outright laughter around the room where there had been only smiles and a few
snickers at Boris’ discomfort previously.
Trying to
control her laughter, Holly muttered, “Boris, years ago when women thought they
were pregnant, they’d go to their doctor.
The doctor would take a sample of some sort of fluid, blood I think, and
inject it into a rabbit. If the rabbit
died, the woman was pregnant. If it
lived, she wasn’t. Or maybe the other
way around, I’m not sure. Suz was just
making a funny.”
Drew started to
enlighten his daughter on the correct rabbit test but held his tongue when Boris
nodded. “Oh.”
Boris then
looked at Suzan with a blank expression.
“Uh, I guess we have to get married then.”
Suzan looked
crestfallen. “You call that a
proposal?”
Now Drew
couldn’t keep quiet any longer. “Nice
job, old man.”
Boris gave Drew
a dirty look, then looked back at Suzan.
“I’m at a loss, Suzan. As you
know I’m in my sixties—and I have never gotten anyone pregnant before.”
Holly covered
her mouth to hide her smile. Billy,
who’d stood up when Boris had, looked at his shoes. Janet looked at Dan and sucked her lips in to
keep from smiling.
Drew, however,
was enjoying his normally totally in control friend’s discomfort. “What you mean is: that you know about. You’ve probably got little Borises running
around all over Africa, the Middle East and Europe.”
Hector
grinned. “You forgot Asia ,
Drew. He just told us he had a female
operative in China
Now totally
nonplused, Boris took hold of Suzan’s elbow and steered her out of the room and
to their bedroom.
Suzan looked up
into his eyes. “I’m sorry I sprang that
on you in front of the others. I was
just excited and happy so I just came in and blurted it out without thinking.”
“You’re…you’re
happy you’re pregnant?”
“Yes…if you
are.”
“I…I…guess I
am. Sorry I didn’t handle the news too
well at first. It would be my honor to
marry you if you’ll have me.”
“That’s much
better. I accept,” replied Suzan before
kissing and then hugging Boris with tears in her eyes as she pressed her head
against his chest.
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