Free Meow Or Never: BBW SEAL Shifter Surprise Pregnancy Romance (Chicago Catastrophe) by Anya Nowlan, Rory Dale Page B

affection for her.
    That could make any woman sick to their stomach.
    Spewing up her breakfast wasn’t exactly how she’d wanted to start the workday, but not much was going her way lately, so why not add some more misery to the situation. She rinsed her mouth and splashed some cold water on her face and started to feel a little better.
    Laura and Olivia, another one of her coworkers, were standing outside her private bathroom when she got out. They both looked concerned, sharing knowing glances with one another.
    The damn glass walls of her office didn’t really do much to hide the fact that she’d run into the bathroom three times in the last hour.
    “Are you alright?” Olivia asked, tucking a stray curl behind her ear.
    “I must still be feeling that damn sushi,” Hailey sighed, getting back to her desk.
    The women followed, not giving up that easily.
    “Bill from accounting also had sushi and he was fine,” Laura remarked as Hailey sat down.
    “I guess I have a more sensitive stomach, then.”
    Hailey shrugged, rummaging around in her purse for some gum, wanting nothing more than to put the whole thing out of her mind.
    “Either that or you’re pregnant,” Olivia joked, earning a nervous little laugh from Laura.
    “She has been getting flowers from some secret guy,” Laura added.
    “If flowers got you pregnant, I would definitely be in trouble,” Hailey said, going along with their banter and trying to ignore the look Laura gave her.
    Without even knowing it, the receptionist might have been on to something. A small sliver of panic went through her. Getting carried away with wild passion, she and Troy hadn’t used a condom. He pulled out, but Hailey wasn’t stupid enough to think that was a foolproof method of birth control.
    But I’m on the pill…
    She groaned inwardly, thinking about all the times she’d heard about someone getting pregnant despite using contraceptives. The truth was, with everything else going on in her life, Hailey had conveniently ignored the fact that she had unprotected sex with a stranger.
    Well, not a stranger anymore, not really, but the point remained.
    But I wouldn’t be getting morning sickness this early on, would I?
    She couldn’t just bury her head in the sand. She had to make sure.
    “I think I should go home, just in case. Maybe it really isn’t food poisoning. It could be a stomach bug and I don’t want to infect the whole office,” Hailey reasoned, suddenly anxious to get away.
    Olivia took a tentative step back while Laura was already handing her her jacket.
    “Of course you should go home, you need to take care of yourself. You’ve been working yourself ragged these past few weeks,” the receptionist admonished.
    Hailey gave the woman a small smile while shoving her laptop in her purse.
    “A nice long nap and I’ll probably be good as new.”
    “Don’t worry, I’ll let Forrest know you weren’t feeling well,” Laura added, patting her on the shoulder as Hailey closed the office door behind her.
    “Yeah, that’ll really make him glad. Not like billable hours aren’t a priority, right?” Hailey said with a sigh.
    But she stopped herself with continuing on that train of thought. It was far too easy to guilt-trip herself into another fourteen-hour workday like that. Instead, she put on her jacket, threw her purse over her shoulder and started for the door.
    “Get well soon!” Olivia called out, still keeping her distance.
    Hailey walked to the first floor of her office building, a tight bundle of nerves. What would she do if she actually was pregnant?
    Okay, let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, she tried to calm herself. But my breasts did feel a bit tender this morning , she remembered, managing to freak herself out again just like that.
    Hailey craned her neck and peeked out from the windows on the front doors of the building, scanning the surroundings for Culliver and getting a few odd looks in the process. She sighed with relief as the