Chapter 106

"Sorry for my rude manners. I guess it's the Baby," the woman said after some moment of laughing. She finally stopped laughing when she noticed the look on Ryan's face.

"It's just that when Brice was talking about you, I thought you would be this big man with some brown teeth and scary looking red eyes." She laughed again at her dramatization.

Ryan didn't find it funny but he laughed too. Was it the pregnancy that was making her like this? He couldn't help but wonder if Stephanie would have behaved like this too if she had been pregnant for him. The thought alone made Ryan laugh harder, this time, for real.

Brice's wife stretched her hand and took a book from the table beside her bed.

"I've never seen my husband so scared, pissed off and irritated at the same time. But it happens any time he talks about you."

She flipped through the book. "When he said you'd be coming, I was preparing myself for some scary looki