Baby Buddies: A BWWM Pregnancy Romance Read Online Free PDF

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    “I’ve got to go,” James told Owen breathlessly, looking at his watch. “I’ve already been too long. Harriet’s going to kill me.”
    “Can’t you get away to the gym for a while?” Owen asked him. “You’ve only been here thirty minutes.”
    “No, sorry,” James sighed. “Not with the baby. Harriet is struggling with the nighttime feedings and everything. The baby never sleeps. Harriet is losing her mind. She needs me to help out a bit more.”
    “You’ve already missed two sessions this week,” Owen reminded him.
    James held up his hands in a defeated shrug. “What can you do?” he said. “I’m a father now. You’ll understand when you have kids.”
    Owen scoffed at the idea and James laughed at him.
    “What? You don’t want kids?” he asked him.
    “You’ve got to have a wife before you have kids,” Owen said with a half-smile.
    “Ah, yes,” James chuckled. “Owen, the eternal bachelor! You know, that preppy personal trainer has had her eyes on you for weeks. I don’t know why you’re holding off on asking her out.”
    Owen made a face. “She seems nice,” he said diplomatically.
    “But?” James pressed.
    “But she’s a bit, you know... energetic.”
    “Energetic? Is that a bad thing?”
    “Yes. No. I don’t know,” Owen sighed.
    “Your expectations are too high,” James advised him. “You’re never going to meet the perfect woman, but she’s pretty close. She’s gorgeous. You can’t plan for everything, Owen. Sometimes you have to take a risk on someone to find out if it’s right. You can’t just watch her from a distance and make up your mind.”
    “You’re probably right,” Owen agreed.
    James was right about Owen. The veterinarian liked routine in his life and stability, but Owen didn’t think that was a bad thing. For him, the most important thing in a relationship was trust and understanding and he wasn’t sure that you found that in a nightclub or on the pull in a bar. He was searching for something deep and meaningful to share with a woman and struggled to find someone to click with because he always expected too much too soon and was unsatisfied with the superficiality of first dates. He wanted someone he could be comfortable with and share his life with, but to get there he had to spend a lot of time doing ground work to work out if someone could ever provide that kind of trust and understanding. As a shy man, Owen found the process of searching for ‘the one’ just a bit too daunting.
    “Perhaps it’s not Lisa that’s the problem, but a certain other woman on your mind,” James guessed, raising his eyebrows suggestively.
    “It’s got nothing to do with Anaya,” Own denied. “I’m just not sure Lisa’s quite right for me.”
    Apart from the brief relationships he’d had with various women, his main insight into the fairer sex came from conversations with his best friend, Anaya. He’d been friends with Anaya ever since she had moved in next door to him when they had both been just toddlers. Watching Anaya’s family move in was one of his first memories. He could still recall sitting on the grass watching Anaya’s strict-looking father and her plump mother carrying boxes up the drive and then he’d seen her. Anaya had come toddling along on her mother’s hand with big, wide eyes and her wild hair and when she had spotted Owen she had started tugging on her mother’s arm and grown excited that a little boy her own age would live next door. Anaya and Owen’s childish excitement at finding a new friend had made their parents laugh and start talking over the garden fence. That was how the two families and grown close and the first of their play dates had been arranged. They’d been in each other’s lives ever since, and Anaya was the only person Owen would talk to about his love life because Anaya was the only one who knew him well enough to be able to tell him straight when he was missing signals from a girl. She always laughed at