Chapter 296: Christian

I swear it will be done!

~Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride

He was starting to wonder about Carla's obsession with cheese – was this a pregnancy thing? Did he need to buy her seventeen different kinds of cheese? – but she was right. They had bigger fish to fry.

"Obviously, upstairs isn't going to work," he said slowly.

"The lack of any kind of bathing equipment is a definite downer," she put in dryly. "Not to mention that when you have a baby, you're doing nothing but laundry. Lugging it all to my mom's house and back is a no-go. Plus...where would we even keep the baby?"

It was obvious she'd spent more than a little bit of time thinking about this. He felt blindsided – he hadn't had days or weeks to wrap his mind around her pregnancy like she had – but he'd do his damndest to catch up.