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contagious.
As Ashton reached for a drink, Birdie gasped, “No Ashton you must not, think of the baby.” Corbin stopped talking and looked at her. She tossed back the drink and reached for another. The woman had been on about a baby since May, she was over it.
“Birdie, I told you Ash isn’t pregnant!” He rolled his eyes, “We can’t keep telling you that.” Corbin gave she a look, he knew how uncomfortable talking of babies made her. Ashton sighed, there was no way they were getting out of dinner. Stopping to visit them when Ashton was on tour was just a way to pry into their life, Birdie was the mouthpiece for the family, they were to be kept in line, the next generation of Bellefleur had to be born soon. Corbin was thirty and he was in line to get the family company, so they had to have a son, ASAP.
Corbin had other plans, of course Ashton knew them, Birdie was going to be horrified, Ashton was going to enjoy the fall from grace. If your marriage was going to be a shame, you might as well have fun with it, right?
“Come now CC, you must know none of the family will judge you for it now, you are married, and we can just tell them the baby was conceived the night of the wedding.” Birdie waved her hand like it was no big deal. Ashton took a big drink and bit her tongue, if this was how the other half lived Ashton was glad her parents hadn’t let money turn them toxic.
Alisa and Ryan would be horrified by a lot of things Ashton had done but marrying into this family would have sent them over the edge if they weren’t dead. Would she even have met Corbin if her parents hadn’t died when they did? No, she didn’t think so because her plan had always been to go to NYU, not UCLA but after Ryan died her dream of NYU fell away, she didn’t want to live there a place Ryan had loved. Jake went and looked how that turned out.
He met Aubree and they had finally gotten married, and they were about to have a baby. Ah her baby niece. Ashton suddenly jumped up, she rushed out of the room. She had to call one of the brothers to see if her niece had made her entrance into the world.
Ashton wouldn’t have her own kids, ever but she was going to be the best damn aunt to Aurora May Brennan, named a little after her momma, her grandma and her aunt. As Ashton was about to call Lucas, his name appeared on her phone, “Luke? Is she here?”
“She took her sweet time, she already is starting to take after you Ash, Jake was going to call but she’s so cute Ash, Tennessee I think now has baby fever.” Ashton blinked Malibu Barbie having a baby, god that was scary thought. Not that she wasn’t learning to love Memphis, shocking as it was. Her other sister-in-law was a lot until you got to know her.
“I hear its contagious. Stay strong.” Ashton laughed, “Send me all the pictures and don’t forget the godparents, Kat may kill you if she doesn’t hear from you soon and Kris, he’ll help because you don’t f*** with Kat.” No one wanted to piss those two off, no sir.
“They are next, and I will send you pics as soon as I can, for some reason Jake and Aubree are hogging the baby already, like they are Roe’s parents or something.” They were both laughing when they hung up. She turned around to find Birdie staring at her, she was glaring at her.
“So, a late dinner then?” Ashton started back to the room. She was in a far better mood. But it dropped, fast.
“Not with you dressed like that, it’s so inappropriate, you must have something nicer you can go put on. Why don’t you hurry down to your room and put something on? We can wait. You look like you haven’t gotten out of bed all day, I’m shocked Corbin would let you walk in here like that, it’s a five-star hotel not a motel on the side of the road for God sake.” Ashton wasn’t looking at her then, but she could hear and feel how horrified this woman was. She knew she didn’t like her; it was so clear they were never going to like each other.
Ashton stopped and spun on her heels, “We aren’t staying here, we don’t have a room, my clothes are on a bus, and damn if I didn’t leave all my Gucci in California. I’m on tour, we eat fast food and sometimes I sleep in my makeup, honestly, I’m no longer in the mood to sit through another minute of you asking me about a baby I’m not having. Now excuse me I’m going to go find the Martin’s, tell my husband he has a niece.” With that Ashton walked around her and out of the hotel room. She was feeling like Vivian from Pretty Woman when the chick wouldn’t tell her how much that outfit was. She was counting down until she could tell off the whole family.
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