The Rockers' Babies (The Rocker... Series) (2 page)

had had it just the week before but it had taken longer for Emmie to get it. The bug had probably been too

scared to infect that little spitfire and had waited until her back was turned before invading and conquering.

“Is she still throwing up?”

I opened my eyes to find Natalie, Shane and Drake’s sister, coming out of one of the bedrooms down

the hallway. When I had first met this girl—whom I considered as much a sister-in-law as Emmie and

Harper—I knew that she was going to make life more interesting. She looked so much like Drake and

Shane who were the male versions of beautiful, and Natalie was drop dead gorgeous. Seriously, no one

person had the right to look that beautiful.

Natalie had become Emmie’s assistant more than a year ago. Since Emmie had taken over as Demon’s

Wings’ manager, Natalie had become a godsend, especially with Drake on the East Coast for
America’s

Rocker
at least three months out of the year. I hoped that Emmie would hire at least one more assistant to take some more of the stress off her shoulders, but Em being Em, I knew she was going to do it all herself

whether she hired someone else or not.

“Yeah. We had to make her come back and rest,” I told her.

“I hope she isn’t going to go out with us tonight. That zombie nearly went mental when she tossed her

cookies on him last night.” A smile teased at Natalie’s lips as she dropped down beside me, tucking her feet under her as she turned to face me. “I thought Jesse was going to burst a gut he was laughing so hard.”

“I wish I had been there.” Lana and I hadn’t been able to go with them the last two nights. Halloween

Horror Nights at Universal Studios wasn’t exactly the place for a pregnant woman. Lana had been pissed

when she found out that she and Drake wouldn’t be joining everyone else for the fright nights of fun. She

loved horror movies.

“You didn’t miss that much,” Natalie assured me, pushing her dark hair back from her face. “Axton

drank too much and of course Linc was trolling for tail. I wish Dallas had been able to come earlier. I miss that bitch.”

A grin split my face at the thought of Dallas Bradshaw. That girl was hell on wheels and we had

welcomed her into our strange family with open arms when Lana had been living with her and Harper back

in New York. Dallas was supposed to join us today and go out with the guys tonight, but we had missed her

over the last two days. The girl had been crazy busy over the last two years with nursing school and we had rarely seen her during that time. But now she was an RN and able to breathe again after the stress of the

prestigious nursing school was behind her.

Natalie and Linc had flown out a few days early so they could have fun with us at Universal Studios,

leaving their roommate to follow today since she was working at the busiest ER in all of New York until the end of the year. “I’m sure the fun will only begin once Dallas gets here,” I told Natalie with a wink.

“You know it.” When Emmie’s retching turned to dry heaves, Natalie stood to go check on her. “Em,

this isn’t good.”

“I’m fine,” she called weakly through the door. “Just get me some lemons. That always helps.”

Yeah, those lemons did help. They had helped me through the worst of my morning sickness. Some

mornings I hadn’t been able to even get out of bed until I sucked on a lemon…

I gasped and stood with some difficulty. Oh. Shit. “Em!” I exclaimed.

Something in my voice must have frightened Emmie because she rushed out of the bathroom as I

hurried toward it. “What is it?” she demanded. “Are you hurting?”

I shook my head, patting my ever-growing stomach as I continued toward her. “I’m fine. No, it’s you that I…” I stopped and bit my lip, wondering if I was losing my mind and making something out of

nothing. Maybe it really was just the bug that Nik and Mia had had.

“What?” Emmie demanded, looking pale. Her hands were trembling and I knew she was dehydrated.

Jesse had told me all about how sick Emmie had been when she was pregnant with Mia. They had been

freaked out because Em wasn’t one to get sick easily. “Could you be pregnant, Em?”

Big green eyes grew even larger in that beautiful, pale face of hers. “What?” She shook her head and

frowned. “No. No… I mean…” she broke off, looking stunned and even paler.

Natalie was already heading toward her room. “It’s always a possibility. I mean, look at what she is

married to. The way those two are always all over each other it wouldn’t surprise me. I’m going to go down

to the shop and see if they have a pregnancy test.”

Fifteen minutes later Emmie was sitting on the couch between me and Natalie as we waited for the

results of the three pee sticks in front of us. We had to wait three minutes and the wait was making Emmie

shake. “I’m just starting to get closer to Mia,” she whispered. “And I’m so busy. So fucking busy. How will I handle another baby and Mia on top of all of the things I have planned for the guys? And Axton? We just

signed a contract with OtherWorld.”

Natalie sent me a look over Emmie’s auburn head. This wasn’t the Emmie we knew and loved; this was

the close-to-emotional-melt-down Emmie who I remembered from her post-partum days. Pregnancy

fucked Em’s hormones up to the point that one minute she was fine and the next she was an emotional

mess and the next she was about to rip someone’s throat out with her bare hands. I knew what those three

pee sticks were going to say even before the timer on my iPhone started buzzing.

“I can’t look,” Emmie murmured and ran back to the bathroom.

Natalie picked up one of the digital tests as I did the same with the other. Flashing back at me was the

word I knew was going to throw Emmie for a loop.

Pregnant.

Chapter 2

Lana

Drake was laughing.

I didn’t think there was a sound that could bring a smile to my lips faster than the sound of his sexy

laugh. I turned my head, only half listening to Harper as she told me about the cake that she had picked out for the wedding in two days. My heart stuttered for a moment when I saw him. Gods, would it ever
not
do that just looking at him? Fuck, I hoped not.

He was standing in line with Mia in his arms as they waited for their turn to order popcorn and cold

drinks. His hair was nearly as long as Mia’s was now, and I had to admit that I loved every sexy inch of that dark hair. I spent hours every day combing my fingers through that hair as he lay his head on my ever-growing stomach and sang “Sleeping Angel” to our little angel in my stomach.

Mia said something and Drake’s head was tossed back as he laughed again. I loved watching him with

her. He was so head-over-heels in love with our little niece that I knew with everything in me that he was

going to be a great father. Just thinking about him holding our little girl when she finally joined us was

enough to make my eyes sting with happy tears.

As if feeling my eyes on him, Drake turned his head and met my gaze. I saw those blue-gray eyes

darken with need and then concern when he saw my tears. I mouthed, “I love you,” and the tension seemed

to leave his shoulders before they even fully tensed.

“Crap, Lana,” Harper muttered beside me. “You guys make it hotter out here every time he looks at

you.”

I couldn’t help grinning as I looked back her. “Says the woman who let sex-on-legs talk her into a

quickie in the private family bathroom not two hours ago.”

It didn’t surprise me that after two years of dating the wildest sex addict in the rock world, Harper could still blush so prettily. I was sure that Shane loved it for an entirely different reason. My brother-in-law was crazy over my best friend and had straightened up his shit quick once he realized that Harper was his

happily ever after.

“You wouldn’t have said no either, if it had been Drake doing the tempting.”

I laughed. “Nope. Wouldn’t even hesitate.”

“Ladies,” Nik chided as he turned from watching Jesse and Lucy go down the water slide for the third

time in the last hour. Thank gods we got Front of Line Pass as a perk for staying at a hotel on site. The way my little sister kept finding rides that she liked, she would have been standing in line for hours to ride them as many times as she had been if we hadn’t had them. “I love you both, but I don’t need my head filled

with you two having sex with those dickheads.”

I hugged him. When I had first met Nik I never would have thought that I would come to care about

him as much as I did. He was as much my brother-in-law as Shane and Jesse were. “Just like we didn’t

need to hear you and Emmie going at it all night last night, stud.” I grinned up at him. “And as sick as she has been, too. Wow. You both have some serious stamina.”

I wasn’t sure, but I thought that he was blushing. That made me crack up and I was wiping my tears

away as he looked anywhere but at me and Harper. Nik Armstrong, blushing? It didn’t get much funnier

than that. He had been—and still was—one of the most lusted after rockers in the world. I knew for a fact

that he had been nearly as wild as Shane had been when it came to all those groupie skanks. But now he

was in deep with Emmie and I knew that he would cut off his own dick to make her happy.

“What’s so funny?” Shane demanded as he came up behind us with a turkey leg in each hand. “Baby,

you sure you don’t want anything to eat?” he asked Harper as he handed me one of the turkey legs.

“I’m good.” She wrinkled her nose at the smell of the turkey leg, but my mouth was already watering

before I could even take a bite. Damned pregnancy cravings.

“So, what had you two rolling over here?” Shane asked as he wrapped his now free arm around

Harper’s waist.

I pointed my turkey leg at Nik. “We were critiquing Nik on his stamina last night. And he’s actually blushing.”

“Lana!” Shane covered his ears. “I don’t need pictures of him and Em haunting me. That’s so fucked

up.”

I snickered again but didn’t say anything else because my mouth was too full of deliciously roasted

meat. Nik grumbled something under his breath and pulled his phone from his pocket. “I really hate you

bitches sometimes.”

“Love you, too,” I assured him.

By the time Jesse and Lucy finally gave up on the water slide, I had given up on teasing Nik. Lucy was

starting to lose some of her steam and Jesse was carrying her by the time we decided to head back to the

hotel. I was glad to get back to the hotel and the penthouse that we had been calling home the last two

nights.

In the elevator I snuggled into Drake. His arms came around me instantly and my panties grew damp

when one big hand skimmed down my back and squeezed my ass. I made a small purring sound that I

didn’t even know I could make and felt his dick harden against my thick stomach. With both Lucy and Mia

asleep in their fathers’ arms, I wasn’t going to think twice about kissing him.

Lifting up on the tips of my toes, I licked his bottom lip. “I love you,” I whispered against his neck. “I

love you.”

Jesse made a growling noise and I shot him a mock glare. “You don’t see me making rude noises when

you go all ape over my sister, do you?”

“I still don’t see what you see in that asshole.” But his ever-changing eyes were lit with amusement and

I knew that all that old anger he had held against Drake was long gone. “But I guess you’re stuck with him.”

Drake’s hand tightened on my ass. “And I thank all of Em’s gods every day for that.”

As soon as the elevator opened up on the top floor, I was ready to take Drake into our room and do

naughty things to him. But it seemed that the universe had other plans for us.

As soon as we opened the door to the first penthouse it seemed like we had walked into a war zone.

The first thing I noticed was the luggage sitting by the door. Then her country accent filled my ears and my heart twisted because I had missed Dallas like crazy. I hadn’t gotten to see much of her in the last few

months because she had been so busy with her final semester of nursing school.

The growling voice of Axton Cage greeted me next and I let out a sad sigh. I had my suspicions on why

Dallas had called it quits with the rock god, but she had never really admitted anything to me. I suspected that Harper knew but we were both too loyal to talk about it without first talking to Dallas.

Harper grabbed my hand and pulled me through the penthouse, eager to stop the argument and to see

our friend. When I caught sight of her for the first time in what had to be months my mouth fell open. It

just wasn’t fair that she was so beautiful. Even tattooed and pierced as she was, that girl was hot as fuck and if I ever decided to go that way, I would so hit that.

“Dallas!” Harper exclaimed when she saw the woman who had been her rock growing up. “Fuck, I’ve

missed you!” She threw her arms around the blonde, and inked up arms wrapped instantly around Harper’s

waist, holding on tight.

I watched Axton as he kept his gaze trained on Dallas. He hadn’t been the same since Dallas had broken

it off with him. Maybe it was because I had gotten to know him so much better over the last few years, but I had seen that his eyes had lost some of their light. I had noticed that when he thought the world wasn’t

watching, he looked almost depressed at times.

Sure he had been carrying on like he didn’t even remember Dallas’s name. I had seen him leaving the

studio with groupie after groupie when
America’s Rocker
was done recording for the day. But I could see that he just wasn’t happy. I felt sorry for him, actually.