Davis, Keyonna - Nowhere to Hide [Pine Valley] (Siren Publishing Ménage and More) (24 page)

Marry me? They want to marry me even after everything that happened?

She never thought she would hear her guys
’
voices again let alone those two words. Cane was lost in thought and didn’t realize that Logan had gone to get the doctor. Dr. Barnes came in and examined her and gave her something for the pain. Pretty soon she was sound asleep again.

* * * *

“Okay, sweetheart,” Duncan said as he swept in the room two days later. “I have the car waiting out front, and as soon as Dr. Barnes checks you out one last time we are out of here.” Cane couldn’t be happier. She was past ready to go home. She was tired of all the poking and prodding by the nurses. True to their word, the guys had not left her side the entire time she was in the hospital, and she knew they were just as ready to go home as she was. She had been feeling nauseous all morning but she didn’t say anything because she didn’t want the guys to panic and make her stay another day. She assumed it was all the pain medication that they were pumping into her that was making her stomach upset. Dr. Barnes came into the room just as Logan finished help
ing
her get dressed.

He walked over and helped Cane sit on the bed. “How are you feeling, Cane?”

“I’m good
,
Doc, just ready to get out of here and actually get some sleep without it being interrupted.” She smiled to show him th
at
she meant it as a joke.

“I went over all the tests we ran yesterday
,
and everything looks as good as can be expected at this point, so I see no problem with you going home today.” Cane sighed in relief, but the way the doctor was looking she felt he wasn’t finished.

“I’m happy to be going home
,
Doc, but I have a feeling there are some stipulations to me going home today.”

Dr. Barnes laughed. “You are a very smart young lady, Cane. Actually there is only one stipulation. I want you on strict bed rest until I see you again in two weeks. The only reason you should be out of bed is to use the bathroom and to shower.”

How could she stay in the bed for two weeks? Cane opened her mouth to object, but Dr. Barnes cut her off. “I have my reason for the bed rest
,
Cane. One of the tests we ran when you first got here in the emergency room was a pregnancy test. It was positive, Cane. You are pregnant.”

“What?” Cane gasped as Logan and Duncan both froze. “That’s not possible
.
T
hey told me that I couldn’t have children.” Cane didn’t know what to think. She wanted to jump up and down and shout
,
but she was scared to get her hopes up. She was told that she could never have kids after what Sam did to her.

“I read your file
,
Cane
,
and I know what happened, but nowhere does it say that you can’t have kids
,
just that it would be extremely hard to get pregnant with all the scarring. You are pregnant
,
trust me
,
and if you don’t mind, I would like to do an ultrasound to make sure everything is okay and see how far along you are.” Stunned, Cane nodded her head and agreed to the ultrasound. She needed to see proof that she was pregnant before she could get emotional.

Once Dr. Barnes left the room to get the machine for the test, Cane looked at Duncan and Logan. They looked just as shocked as she was. Would they still want to marry her if she was pregnant? They had both asked her to marry them the day before and both given her an engagement ring and explained that she would legally be marrying Logan, but they would have their own private ceremony where she would marry Duncan as well. Cane happily said yes
,
knowing that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with these guys. Because her left arm was in a cast and her fingers were swollen, she wasn’t able to wear the rings yet, but the guys had been sweet enough to put them on a chain so that she could wear them around her neck. They explained that they were going to ask her to marry them the night she was kidnapped by Sam and how they had a whole romantic evening all planned out, but assured her that when she was able to wear the rings, they would plan a special evening and propose to her properly. Cane couldn’t wait.

No one said anything when Dr. Barnes wheeled the ultrasound machine into the room, and Cane could feel herself holding her breath. Letting it out, she breathed in deep again trying to calm herself. Dr. Barnes lifted her shirt and squirted cold gel on her belly.

“Now keep in mind that it is probably too soon for you to be able to see anything specific like fingers and toes, that sort of thing, but we should be able to definitely tell if you are pregnant.” The doctor turned the machine on
,
and Cane lay patiently and stared at the gray
-
and
-
black screen as he rubbed the wand all over her belly. After about three minutes of him repositioning the wand, he finally looked up and smiled.

Pointing to the screen with two fingers, he said, “Congratulations
,
M
omma
, there are your babies.”

“Babies? You mean I really am pregnant, with two of them?” Dr. Barnes just nodded and smiled and started to clean her belly with a paper towel.

“Now that you believe me, will you do as I say and stay on strict bed rest until we know how this pregnancy is going to go?” Swallowing past the lump in her throat and trying to clear her head, Cane agreed to the doctor’s orders and thanked him as he left the room.

Not thinking clearly, she just blurted out, “Well, that explains why my stomach has been so upset this morning.”

Without warning both guys were on her. “What do you mean your stomach was upset
.
Why didn’t you tell us?” Logan asked. At the same time Duncan said, “Maybe you need to stay one more day.” They were both rubbing on her and petting her, and Cane knew that it was just as much for their comfort as it was for hers. They hadn’t stopped touching her in some kind of way since she woke up the first day.

“No, we are going home
,
and we are all getting in the bed and going to sleep. We all need the rest. I am okay to go home, but what I want to know is, are you both okay with me being pregnant. I mean, what do we do? How will we know whose babies they are? Do we want to know? What will they call you?”

“Cane
,
baby, calm down. It’s okay, we are happy about the babies
,
” Logan said
,
and Duncan nodded his head and smiled. “We will both be their fathers, and they will call us both
D
ad. We don’t want to know whos
e
they are because we will both love them. As far as we are concerned, these babies are both of ours.”

They both hugged her
,
and she knew that everything would be okay. She didn’t know what she did to deserve these guys, but she loved them both more than anything and couldn’t wait to get home to curl up with them.

“I love you guys
,
and I can’t explain how happy I am about the babies. I never thought I would be able to have kids, and now you have given me two of them
.
I couldn’t ask for anything more.”

“I could think of a few things,” Duncan said with a sexy grin. “But first, let’s get you home and get you healed so I can show you all the things I’m thinking of.” He winked as Logan laughed.

Life can’t get any better than this, Cane thought as Logan scooped her up in his arms and carried her out of the hospital.

Epilogue

Cane was so nervous she couldn’t stop shaking. She was getting married to two men today. She wasn’t having cold feet or second thoughts because she knew without a doubt that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with these two men, but she just couldn’t help but to be nervous. It had been three months since she
had been
kidnapped by Sam, and she was still healing. Also, she was three and a half months pregnant with twins
,
and she felt like a whale. She let Ali plan the wedding because she still felt guilty for letting Cane take a beating to keep her safe. Cane tried to explain over and over that there was no reason for Ali to feel guilty, but the girl wouldn’t listen, so Cane was hoping that letting her plan the wedding went a long way in easing that guilt. She had to admit that Ali did a really good job with everything. They were having it in the backyard, and she had a white tent set up with white lights underneath and dozens of
bloodred
roses everywhere. It was simple but beautiful. The dress Ali picked out for her fit perfectly
,
even though it looked like she was carrying a beach ball underneath, but she wasn’t complaining. After being on bed rest for three months, Dr. Barnes finally said that she was past the danger zone and could get out of the bed as long as she didn’t push herself. Of course that was not a problem because Logan and Duncan never let her lift a finger. After the first few weeks from the hospital, she had to fight just to be able to go to the bathroom alone. There
was
only so much a girl
could
take, and using the bathroom in private was the one thing that Cane refused to compromise on.

“Are you ready?” Ali squealed
,
snapping Cane out of her thoughts.

Cane took a deep breath
.
“I am as ready as I will ever be.”

She lined up behind Ali who was her maid of honor with Jessica, the librarian, in front of her as her bridesmaid. Cane and Jessica had become really close in the three months that she was on bed rest
,
because she had nothing to do but read. Jessica brought her books twice a week and stayed to visit while she was there. She shared her secret with Cane that she was in fact J. Red the romance writer. Of course Cane already knew this from Riley, but she played along like it was new news to her. She watched as Riley escorted Jessica down the aisle with a huge grin on his face and couldn’t help but smile herself. Jessica was a lucky woman and didn’t even know it yet because Riley had his sights set on her, and he wasn’t giving up without a fight. Chase escorted Ali down the aisle and then it was Cane’s turn. As she walked down, she spotted Duncan and Logan
,
and they took her breath away. They were both gorgeous in their classic black tuxedoes with
bloodred
bowties and cummerbund
s
to match the roses.

She and Logan were already officially married, having signed the marriage license and
taken
their vows in front of Duncan earlier in private. So as of this morning she was Mrs. Cane Matthews-Summer. She applied to have her name legally changed to Matthews as soon as she got home from the hospital. She wanted to be able to take both of their last names since she was marrying both of them. Now they were having a small, private ceremony between them to bond the three of them together. They invited only a handful of people who knew about their relationship. They each took turns exchanging rings saying their own vows and Cane had to stop twice to keep from crying through hers. There weren’t enough words to express how much she loved them and how much her life had changed since they walked into it, but she was determined to show them every day for the rest of her life and she would start by convincing them to lift the no-sex ban that they imposed since she was placed on bed rest. Fighting not to smile, Cane watched her men as they received hugs and congratulations from their guests.