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rose to her ears. “Maybe he wanted it to be a surprise?”
    “He knows I’m in the midst of mini breakdowns every day! Why wouldn’t he tell me?!”
    “I don’t know,” she said, tilting her head and giving me a sheepish, apologetic look. “You’ll have to ask him.”
    Adrian
                  “I’m tellin’ you, man, life is good.” I tipped back my beer bottle and let the icy bubbles burn down the back of my throat while I patted Goliath who sat on the floor beside my chair.
    “Every man should have your abilities,” Derek said, smirking. “You’re like a woman whisperer. They blow a fuse and you calm them down.”
    “Yeah, I—shit.” Through the patio door, I could see Kay storming toward the house. Derek turned from his seat on the leather sofa to look out the door.
    “Better get your whisper on,” he said, s tanding and darting out of the room. “Goliath, come.” The dog trotted after him.
    Kay blew through the door and headed straight for me. “What’s wrong?” I said.
    “What’s wrong?” She threw her hands in the air and they landed on her hips. “When were you going to tell me about all of your grand plans? You told Derek! Why not me? I’m the one having this baby in case you forgot!”
    “How could I forget?” I asked.
    “Right! Because I’m a big fucking blimp!”
    “Oh my God. That’s not what I meant.” I stood up and reached for her, but she stepped away.
    “You’re not going to make me shut up and calm down with sex!”
    Derek snorted a laugh out in the kitchen.
    “I wasn’t going to.” I reached for her again and caught her hand. “Talk to me. What’s wrong?”
    “Talk to you? Talk to you!?” Her eyes were on the verge of blowing a couple blood vessels. “Look who’s talking! Or not talking!” She stomped her foot. “Ugh!”
    “Kay, I know you’re pissed about something, but if you want to talk about it, we should do it soon before your shower guests start arriving.”
    Her nostrils flared and she stared daggers at me. It took twenty-two years to learn, but I now knew that the most frightening sight on the planet was a pregnant woman who wanted to tear your nads off.
    “I’m not the one with the talking to do,” she said between gritted teeth.
    The doorbell rang. Kay’s face didn’t budge. Her eyes still projected fury and her jaw still clenched and twitched with rage.
    “Bess! Someone’s here ! I’ll get it!” Derek yelled on his way into the foyer. Bess, who had been loitering right outside the patio door, tried to sneak through the great room without being noticed.
    “Hello! Welcome,” Derek said. Then I heard my mom’s voice. And my sister. And my other sister. This was when I realized I hadn’t mentioned to Kay that they were coming and she’d be meeting them for the first time.
    “I’m Adrian’s mom, Grace” my mom said, “and these are his sisters Lynn and Kendall.”
    Karen’s eyes grew even wider and a look of utter horror overtook her face. “Your mom and sisters? How could you do this? Not even tell me they were coming?” Her chest shuddered and tears rolled.
    “I didn’t think it was a—Kay, I didn’t think. I’m sorry. I guess because I don’t get bothered by meeting people, so I didn’t even consider that it would be a big deal to you.”
    “I’m the old lady you knocked up and you didn’t think it was a big deal to meet your mom!?” She ran for the stairs.
    “Kay, you’re not an old lady,” I called after her and heard one of the doors upstairs slam shut.
    I turned to find my mom and sisters staring after her, mouths open. Derek’s hand came d own on my shoulder. “Nice one, Boy Band. Nice one.”
    *
    “You can open the door now,” I said, sitting with my back against the guest room door where Kay had locked herself in. Goliath’s head rested on my thigh. He gazed up at me with droopy dark eyes full of pity. “They’re all in the gazebo. It’s just you and me and the