Pregnancy Trope

Devonnie leads Jordan and Christina through an episode featuring her favorite romance trope: pregnancy. The pregnancy trope is where one of the main characters is pregnant at some point during the book. This hotly debated trope is often divisive in the romance book community. Whether you love or hate this trope we encourage you to give it a chance. From part dragon babies, omegaverse births, surprise pregnancy in a throuple, to sweet contemporary love stories there are a wide range of books discussed this week. You won't want to miss the conversations that come from these recs. 

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Christina (00:01):
Welcome to Romance Recs.
We're three romance obsessedbesties sharing book recs broken
down by genres and tropes so youcan be sure you're getting
exactly what you want out ofyour next read.
I'm Christina and I am currentlylistening to, I just started
listening to the Ritual byChantel Tessier,

Jordan (00:18):
nice.
I'm Jordan and I am currentlylistening to Bewitched by Laura.
Thea.

Devonnie (00:26):
Hey guys, dev here and I am currently listening to Miss
v's.
Hot Girl Summer.
I'm really excited that by a hCunningham.

Christina (00:38):
Yay.
So buckle up for some bookishbanter.

Jordan (00:42):
There we go.
There we go.
There we

Devonnie (00:44):
that's, I was like, wait, I freaked.
I was like, am I supposed to saythe buckle up?
No,

Jordan (00:49):
don't take that from Christina.
Don't

Devonnie (00:50):
I know.
Never.
Never.
Oh

Christina (00:54):
Hey

Devonnie (00:55):
Hi guys.
Yeah.
Oh, my favorite.
I'm so happy about that.
I wish y'all could see the looksthat they're giving me.
Yeah.
Especially Jordan when she'sokay, let's just get through
this episode.
But I'm very excited that we arediving into pregnancy trope.

(01:17):
Round of applause.
Yay.
Yay.

Christina (01:19):
Done.
Done.
Done.

Jordan (01:21):
oh.
It's so fun.

Devonnie (01:24):
It's so crazy because we've all been pregnant.
We are moms.

Jordan (01:29):
We are, we have all grown things in our uterus.
And you know what's also crazythough?
We are also three C-sectionmoms.

Devonnie (01:41):
Yeah.
That's

Jordan (01:42):
gotten that wonderful experience.

Devonnie (01:46):
So wonderful.

Jordan (01:47):
shout out to all you moms who've powered through that
c-section because,

Devonnie (01:52):
It's crazy.

Jordan (01:53):
all moms in general.

Devonnie (01:54):
Yeah.
But yeah, I'm super excitedabout pregnancy trope because it
really is like one of myfavorite tropes and I have no
idea why.
Well, I do have an idea why.
I think it's when like the man,yeah.
When the man just goes sopsychotic and like super, like
protective and I don't know allthe like, pregnancy things that

(02:17):
they bring up.
I'm always shocked.
Wait, did that happen?
Oh, it's a 20 week appointment.
This, oh, when you're this, thatI love like just reading about
it and reflecting on none of thethings I remember from my
pregnancy.
But yeah, it just makes me feela little giddy.

Jordan (02:31):
it's pri like primal, right?
That

Devonnie (02:34):
Oh yeah.

Jordan (02:34):
when the man goes, that's the ultimate, primal man,

Devonnie (02:37):
Right.

Jordan (02:38):
get away from my pregnant web.
Oh

Devonnie (02:41):
yeah,

Christina (02:42):
I think reading these books, I found out I'm more into
the breeding kink than thepregnancy itself.
That's what I realized.

Devonnie (02:52):
I almost choked on my hot coffee.
I mean, my hot tea, you are notwrong because that when not
every pregnancy tr book hasthat, but the ones that do good
God, I mean wow.

Jordan (03:06):
Okay.
Yeah.
So, you know, different strokesfor different folks and, you
know, we're all different.
So before we get too far intothat I did choose a quote
related to our topic today.
So my quote is, from unexpecteddelivery by Jillian West, labor

(03:27):
is brutal.
Why hasn't nature come up with amore convenient way of
delivering babies by now?
Where the fuck is the evolutionwhere you need it?

Christina (03:36):
Ooh.
Good point.

Devonnie (03:37):
Yeah.
I love that.
Very on brand.
Very cute.
I also have, yeah, true.
I have a quote from one of thebooks that I'm gonna be recing.
And I don't know, again, this isall about the, like the man,
just like knowing thatconnection or whatever.
But in this book, which is readyor not by Kara Ba, he is not the

(04:01):
Daddy anyway, he blinks down atme a slow expression, filled
with a depth that only decadesof knowing someone can give you
this.
Here is a man who knows me and Ifeel known.
So sweet and sappy, which thatentire book is honestly, truly,
I can't wait to talk about it.
But yeah, that was just like amoment for me.

Christina (04:24):
I also picked a quote from a book I'm recommending
today, and it also has to dowith birth.
So Jordan, you and I, sameseason.
Okay.
This is from Hoarded by theDragon, by Lillian Lark and Oh,
yeah.
Oh yeah.
He

Jordan (04:38):
definitely about the.

Christina (04:42):
Hey you.
It's is pregnancy, right?
Okay.
Anyhow, the dragon says, in allthe wars and bloodshed I've seen
in My life.
nothing is as primal and viciousas birth.
And I was like, you know That'sright.

Devonnie (04:55):
Yeah.
I actually do love that quote.
That's really nice.
Coming from a dragon.
Yeah, it's crazy.
That's why

Christina (05:03):
didn't say it had to be human pregnancy.

Devonnie (05:06):
True.
Yeah.
I'm excited.
Okay.
Jordan's just get this episodeover

Jordan (05:10):
No.
Okay.
And I, okay, here's the thing.
Before we really get into it.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I have, it's'cause I have myown trauma from I.
Birth.
Okay.
I have my own trauma.
Honestly, my whole pregnancy wasa fucking nightmare.
Like I was sick every day.

(05:30):
Every single day.
These people that are like, justwait until you get into the
second trimester.
Oh, wait till you feel so horny.
Wait till you feel this.
Wait till you feel that.
I felt nothing but nauseous inpain, and I ended up with
preeclampsia and then eclampsia,my organ stopped working.
Like you just, it was, look, Ilove my child and I'm so glad I

(05:52):
have her, and I'm also verythankful for modern medicine
because we would not be herewithout it.
So I just, to me, this justcomes with a lot of feels and I
understand this is also a veryhotly debated trope.
Like people love it or they hateit,

Devonnie (06:08):
Yeah.

Christina (06:09):
no medium.

Devonnie (06:10):
there's no medium with pregnancy trope.

Jordan (06:12):
I think I found the medium, I think I found, but
I'll talk about that with myRecs.
I'm not gonna, but I won't kickus off because I'm not a good
representation for that.

Christina (06:22):
I think the pregnancy lover should do it.

Jordan (06:25):
Yeah.

Devonnie (06:26):
Okay.
Well, you ain't gonna tell me.
So I am gonna start with, Ooh, Ihave so many choices.
I'm gonna start with the sweetone since I just talked about
this in my quote.
Ready or not by Kara Beone.
It follows Eve and Shep.
Eve is kind of like trying tofigure her life out.
Doesn't really have an idea ofwhat she's doing, but like you,

(06:51):
she's just a girl trying tofigure her life out in the city
of Brooklyn.
Okay.
She lives pretty close to herbest friend, Willa.
Who is Shep's sister and theyhave this really great bond, but
it's like as soon as Eve tellsWilla that she's pregnant, which
by the way was like a one nightstand, like Eve decides to let

(07:13):
her hair down and ends uppregnant.
Could you imagine living by therules, doing everything perfect,
and then you decide I'm going togo have some fun and you
literally get pregnant.
Well, that's what happens toher.
Yeah.
So, she tells Willa and it's notsuper receptive.
So she's pregnant.
Her best friend is likeghosting, not ghosting her, but

(07:33):
just not what she, not thesupport system she needed.
While she has no one else in hercorner, like Willa is her
person.
So Shep steps up the baby daddyeventually finds out about this
baby.
She doesn't keep it from him.
He's like supportive, but alsohe's, he gives weird vibes.
I'm not gonna go too much intohim anyway.
So yeah, really the nine months,we follow Eve's pregnancy for

(07:55):
nine months and it just followsher going through the ups and
downs of pregnancy, like thecute little fun facts and stuff,
but also navigating life andthis new life she's about to
bring into her.
Like super chaotic, superdysfunctional at this point, you
know, doesn't have a baby daddy,but you have this man who's it's
very much, it's always been youfor Shep.

(08:17):
So Yeah, it's like always beenher.
He's, and then like they diveinto that, which is really
beautiful.
It's like really cute friends tolovers as well.
Yeah, very much.

Jordan (08:29):
in a couple episode or

Devonnie (08:31):
You might.
Yes.
I might be bringing this rightback up, so, and I do think it's
one of those books where youread it and you might cry after
you, like during it or after.
Yeah.
It's really one of those hitsyou in the field, makes your
chest hurt, makes youuncomfortable kind of books.
But it was so sweet.
Oh my gosh.
Ka And Kara has a way withwriting her characters too, that

(08:52):
is so well thought out.
So I definitely recommend, I'mpretty sure I gave this four or
five stars on Good Reads.
You know, if you're into theStar thing, I rated it pretty
highly, so Yeah.
Ready or not, Kara Bato.

Christina (09:03):
Woo.
Okay,

Jordan (09:05):
not.
Here I

Christina (09:06):
I'll go.
next Jordan.
And thank you for the music.

Jordan (09:10):
yeah.

Christina (09:10):
Okay.
My first recommendation isactually an A oh three Fanfic.
This one is, yay.
This one is called The Mechanicby Dayton Bay.
The story's a fanfic about whoelse?
Ray and Kylo Ren.
Those are my favorites.

Devonnie (09:27):
Dead.

Christina (09:27):
it's always

Jordan (09:27):
No way.

Christina (09:28):
what?

Devonnie (09:30):
Shocking.
babe.

Christina (09:32):
Ray this takes place in the uk.
Ray is a mechanic in London.
She's poor, but she works hard.
She's, you know, gritty, workingthrough her stuff, doing what
she can.
She happens to fix a car for avery nice older woman who
invites her to her hotel for acar show that evening.
And Ray owns like two dresses,so she puts on her nicer of the
two dresses and'cause, you know,she's just poor working hard,
but she's I'm gonna go out onthe town and get the free

(09:53):
alcohol and snacks at thishotel, you know, and so she's
just sitting there waiting bythe door where the people come
through with the tray so she cangrab the munchies and fill up
her bag and stuff.
She's just living her best life.
And anyhow, she meets the womanwho she picks the car for.
She doesn't know it yet, butthis lady is like higher ups in

(10:14):
the mafia, right?
And so she's here are some of myassociates.
And one of'em is tall, dark, andhandsome, brooding ky.

Devonnie (10:23):
That is so funny.

Christina (10:24):
I know.
And so they just drink and hangout all night and then one thing
leads to another and Kaylainvites Ray up to his hotel room
and she's fuck it, I'm just agirl.
I might as well enjoy my nightoff.
Right.

Devonnie (10:34):
See.
See you see how it happens.
We just wanna be a girl and nextthing you know, we're pregnant.
Crazy

Christina (10:42):
Damn, damnit.

Jordan (10:43):
I'm just a girl.

Devonnie (10:45):
slippery slope there.

Jordan (10:47):
So

Christina (10:47):
Literally.

Devonnie (10:51):
Jail.
Jail for you both.

Jordan (10:54):
There's gonna be a lot of jail time tonight, I'm just
saying.

Devonnie (10:56):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I see it.

Christina (10:59):
so Ray and Callen have this amazing night and she
doesn't think anything of it.
She like literally even chargesthe room for breakfast in the
morning and she doesn't care andshe leaves and she gets back and
she's just doing her mechanicstuff and then she thinks she
has a bout of the flu, as we allmight do.

Jordan (11:15):
Yeah.

Christina (11:16):
And any who she finds out it's not the flu.
But I did find out a lot aboutthe NHS handling pregnancy in
this book.
And I'm like, what is wrong withus?
Because they're just like,here's all this stuff and it's
free and here's your care andyada.
And I'm like any who?

Devonnie (11:30):
Yeah.

Christina (11:31):
But

Devonnie (11:31):
Right.

Jordan (11:32):
Sad again.

Devonnie (11:33):
Love that.

Christina (11:34):
So Ray wants to go tell Kylo, but she's really like
nervous, scared.
Finally she works up the courageto go tell him, but he doesn't
believe her at first, like hethinks she's after the money.
'cause he, she found out he'shigh in the mafia, you know, and
is after money.
She literally has no knowledgeabout this.
So any who she decides, he's notgonna believe me, whatever.
I'm just gonna go spend mymeasly like 20 pounds I have for

(11:55):
my poor ass job to go get somefood.
So she's like literally justbuying canned food.
It's all she can afford.
And.
Kylo Ren finds her there and isrealizes that she's not in it
for the money.
She really just needs help forher and the baby.
And so he starts to take care ofher and invites him, her to live
for the pregnancy in his home.
And he's in this big mansion andshe's just living this wonderful

(12:15):
life, pregnant.
And I just love this Fanfic.
It's 38 chapters.
It has one of my favorite scenesof all time.
I read this Fanfic three yearsago and this scene still pops up
in my head from time to time.
Oh, it's the perfect book.
It's perfect.

Devonnie (12:31):
I love

Jordan (12:31):
I love when scenes stay with you like

Devonnie (12:34):
Yeah.
Yeah.

Jordan (12:35):
that makes it, it's so special.
You know it then.

Devonnie (12:37):
Yeah.

Christina (12:38):
yeah.
He has to kill someone who looksat her.
So I

Jordan (12:42):
Aw.

Devonnie (12:42):
Ooh, we love that.
That is so sweet.
That's so sweet.

Christina (12:46):
we see her with her baby as the baby gets older, a
few years older and stuff.
So it's just great.
It travels through them and youwould just see their
relationship grow.
So I love that about them.

Devonnie (12:56):
Oh,

Jordan (12:56):
And I love that, that you're giving us the A oh three

Devonnie (12:59):
right?

Christina (13:00):
Know there's some amazing stuff on there.

Jordan (13:03):
Yeah,

Christina (13:04):
Give it a shot.

Jordan (13:05):
this sounds stays with you for three years.

Devonnie (13:07):
Right,

Jordan (13:09):
Yeah, must.
Okay.
I'm gonna start with my first, Ithink, believe this was my first
pregnancy trope run in, if youwill.
I mentioned it briefly in ourSports Romance episode, I
believe.
It's book two in the VancouverAgitator series by Meghan Quinn.
It's called Those Three LittleWords and I actually enjoyed it

(13:32):
knowing the tropes going in.
I didn't think I would, but Idid.
So this one follows one of theplayers, Eli Hornsby.
He is a horn dog.
He is one of the players of the

Devonnie (13:43):
not Hornsby, the horn dog like Megan.

Jordan (13:46):
That's me.
No, I called him the horn dog.
But his best friend is on theteam whose name is Pacey.
Okay.
And Pace's.
Sister's name is Penny.
There's lots of peas in thisbook.
Just hang on.
Penny's the only one we need toknow.
So they happen to be out at thesame time, run into each other
at this bar.
And I believe it was, it's oneof their birthdays or something

(14:08):
like that.
I don't remember the occasion,but he was alone.
She was the friend and herfriend left and they ended up
just talking and then drinkingand then they end up, they fall
into bed together.
Right.
It's a one night stand.
'cause she's she knows how heis.
She knows him.
This is her brother's bestfriend.

(14:29):
He is a famous player.
Right.
Hockey player, on and offfeelings.
And she just needs to get offfor a night.
Okay.
And she knew he could do it, hecould deliver.

Devonnie (14:42):
right.

Jordan (14:43):
And nine months later she delivered.
So, but the funny thing is shedecides to inform him.
She sits both him and herbrother down at the same time
and is

Devonnie (14:55):
Brave.

Jordan (14:56):
all right, just gonna get this all out in the open.
I'm pregnant.
And it's Eli's.
As you were.
And then she like leaves theoffice like, and like

Christina (15:07):
bomb and left.

Jordan (15:07):
But Eli's of, well of course I'm gonna be there for
her.
So they're still not together,right?
But there's something wrong withsome kind apartments or
whatever.
They end up living together andit's a one bed situation, forced
proximity.
'cause there's only one bedroom.
It's this whole thing.
And so of course he's takingcare of her through all these,
pregnancy symptoms and all thecravings and like somewhere in

(15:32):
the midst of all that, theycatch some feelings, right?
And it's just the way they dothat and tease each other
because Penny is an extremelysassy character and she's a
spitfire.
He is, I mean, he is a smoothtalker Playboy, who's now trying
to like be a daddy and be a babydaddy at home.

(15:53):
And it's, he's just you'recrying.
What's, I don't know what'swrong, what do I do?
I, but he's like trying so hard,like he's a puppy and it is
just, it was so good and it wasso funny.
This is Meghan Quinn at herbest, so this is just really
funny and really cute the waythey get together.

(16:15):
And it's really hot too'cause

Devonnie (16:18):
I

Jordan (16:18):
gets in that, so she gets to the point where she's
try smelling his clothes whilehe is gone.
'cause she's just so hordy and

Devonnie (16:24):
Yeah.
Yeah.

Jordan (16:25):
Oh my God.

Devonnie (16:27):
I love that.
I love that.
Okay.
I feel like my next rec is, willbe funny.
Well, okay.
There's a lot to unpack.
The next one I have is Baby Moonor Bust, and it's by Ava Hunter.
And like this book wasn't the grI have such mixed feelings about
it because I didn't think it wasthe greatest book, but I really
laughed and had fun watching thepregnancy part of this happen.

(16:52):
But let me set the scene.
Okay.
First of all, my first point ofcontention with Ava Hunter, Ava,
why is her name Tessie TrueLove?

Christina (17:01):
Oh, I remember this.

Devonnie (17:03):
main Yes.
Do you remember how I was pissedoff that her first name was her
last name was True Love Tessy.
True love.
That pissed me off from thebeginning.
But then the male maincharacter's name is Solomon
Wilder.
Solomon in this day and age,Wilder.
And guess where he lives?
Solomon Wilder lives in Alaska.

(17:24):
The salmon references the wild.
It is just too much to bear.
And like I really did bear it.
I really did because I enjoyedit.
I got a little giggle, got alittle laugh.
Tessie is a mess.
I mean, the way she tells herlife story, her dog left her
daddy went out to get cigarettesand never came back.
Her mama

Christina (17:41):
this a country song?

Devonnie (17:45):
Tessie's Life is actually a country song, but
she's like a super famous,popular interior designer.
You know, she's about, she'sthat girl in the interior
designer world.
She ends up, they both end upsomewhere in the us.
At the same time.
And Tessie.
Oh, Tessie's also kind of like araging bitch.
That's what she's, everyoneknows her as that, but honestly

(18:05):
it's her trauma.
She leads with her trauma.
You just don't know it's trauma.
You think it's her personalityanyway, they end up maybe, yeah
they end up, you know, gettingdrunk, drinking whiskey.
Next thing you know, they've hadschmucks and she gets pregnant.
It's a one night standsituation.
They

Christina (18:21):
It's every single time it's a one night stand

Jordan (18:24):
people talk about drinking and driving, but like
drinking

Devonnie (18:27):
We really got, yeah,

Christina (18:29):
drinking and fucking

Jordan (18:31):
Just drinking

Devonnie (18:31):
are born that way.
Like we are feeding thepopulation when we drink.
Please drink responsibly anyway.
They have this, right, they havea one night stand.
She goes back to her LA life.
What?

Jordan (18:47):
Well, drunker you are.
The more likely you're legitanyways.

Devonnie (18:53):
I hate it here.
I hate it here.

Jordan (18:54):
No, you don't.
You love it here.

Christina (18:57):
Def.
You were off on a tangent.
and Jordan had her hand up for afull three minutes and you

Jordan (19:01):
I know.
And she refused to look at thescreen.
She was looking out and I waslike, I have a really good
comment.
I

Devonnie (19:06):
sorry.
What did you wanna say?
I'm taking questions.

Jordan (19:09):
moment has kind of passed.
But you were talking about theirnames and I was just saying it
feels like the call is comingfrom inside the house on this
one because you keep readingbooks with names like this and I
feel like at some point it's notthe authors, it's you choosing
them.
So maybe you claim to hate themand cringe, but maybe you live
for this drama and I feel likeyou're asking for it at this
point.

Devonnie (19:29):
I feel like this is very cir chicken egg
conversation.
What came first?
Because

Jordan (19:34):
I don't run into that.

Devonnie (19:35):
did it, the authors didn't write that.
This is also a trope you don'tread as much.
If the authors didn't writethis, I wouldn't have a

Jordan (19:42):
it's not about the trope.
Honey is, you have found it inother tropes.

Devonnie (19:45):
It's very chicken, very egg.
I don't know.
I don't know who's right.
I don't know who's wrong?
It's giving chicken and egg.
Okay.
Somebody came first, and itwasn't me.
It was Tessie, or actually itwas Solomon.

Jordan (19:57):
We should always come first.

Devonnie (20:00):
Let me tell y'all about Tessie.
The people want to know.
Okay,

Jordan (20:04):
Love.
Be good, love.
Good.

Devonnie (20:05):
one night stand, they go back to their respective
parts of the universe, Alaskaand la they go back to their
respect and parts of theuniverse.
And wouldn't, you know, Solomonis out at, in Alaska just
watching TV and sees Tessie onthe TV with a round ass belly.
He said, wait a minute, this isthe girl I have not been able to
find.
So anyway, Tessie has planned ababymoon to get her, you know,

(20:29):
ready for pregnancy.
Solomon ends up crashing it andbasically they give themselves
three days to figure out if theywant to parent together.
A lot happens in those threedays, obviously, they end up
falling in love.
And there's definitely a lot of,oh, am I gonna move to Alaska?
Are you gonna move to la?
Very different vibes.
They find a happy medium.
But yeah, I, okay.
The reason

Christina (20:49):
Wait, what's the happy medium between California?
Between California and Alaska?

Jordan (20:54):
uh

Devonnie (20:54):
She moves to Alaska.

Christina (20:56):
That's her giving it up.

Jordan (20:58):
Isn't she more, isn't she more

Devonnie (21:00):
She has no family.
Her daddy left.
Is she more successful?

Jordan (21:04):
like there's a lot, a big call for her career up
there.
And she is very well known

Devonnie (21:09):
She's so no.
So yes and no.
Her career is taking off, buteveryone in the fricking
business thinks she's a ragingbitch.
And also she's really good ather job, but she works in the
most toxic environment.
Like her boss is so toxic.
She took the babymoon and he lether go on the babymoon, gave her
the time off, and thenimmediately as soon she got on

(21:29):
the Babymoon the next day he's Ineed you back.
We have this client, da.
Did not even give her the space.
It's so toxic, but it's likeshe's fearful or something.
She doesn't think she can do itherself.
So I feel like the move toAlaska, she honestly needed,
because again, her dog died, herdaddy died.
Her mama died.
Like it's a lot of loss in herlife.
She needed that familyenvironment.
And Solomon has I.
13 siblings or something.

(21:51):
I don't know.
He is one of those big families.
So, and then she moved,basically had her practice and
would come back to LA whenevershe wanted.
Was that a spoiler?
Maybe bleep that You know, thereason I suggested this actually
is because I think it's a reallyquick read.
And if you are in like a slump,you want something funny.
And I'm not going to saynonsensical'cause this author
isn't a nonsensical writer, butI will say it's just, it's not

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gonna leave you in tears.
You know what I'm saying?
It's not ready or not, you'renot gonna be like, oh my God,
the discovery, you're gonna becracking up.
So I think it's a nice palatecleanser for pregnancy trope.

Christina (22:25):
Nice.

Devonnie (22:26):
Yeah.
That's all I got.

Jordan (22:29):
Thank you.
That

Devonnie (22:31):
You're welcome.

Christina (22:32):
Okay.
Nine Month Contract by AmyDawes.
I'm gonna go ahead and startwith, I also didn't love this
book, but I did like it wasreally funny, so I did really
like that if it, I just didn'tlove all the pieces of it.
But it's okay.
This book's about a woman namedTrita who wants to be a
surrogate.
She tries to sign up with areputable surrogate agency but
she's denied due to her weight.

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But she just happens to run intoa young woman outside who's
trying to find her uncle asurrogate.
His name is Wyatt and he doesn'twant.
Anything more in life.
But to be a dad since his daddied, he wants to be a dad and
experience that, but he doesn'tlike relationships.
So he doesn't want a wife.
He just wants a baby.
So he wants it.
No strings attached from asurrogate, right?

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The surrogacy does.
Company doesn't really like that'cause he doesn't have a life
partner and they're reallyhesitant for that.
So they don't wanna sign him upfor one anywho.
So now Trita and Wyatt can worktogether.

Devonnie (23:23):
together.

Christina (23:24):
So, Trista moves on to his farm.
He has this self-sustaining farmcompany in Boulder, Colorado and
she moves onto his farm to workand live above.
His barn in an apartment hebuilt.
However, it like just throwsWyatt's life into craziness
because she brings all theseanimals and he hates animals.

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And then also she's really likesuper curvy and gets pregnant
right away and puts off his auraof he's possessive, of that's my
baby, and yada, yada.
He's like going feral over thiswoman.
He wants to have her and startsthinking maybe I do want a
relationship, but she does notwant a relationship and she
doesn't want a baby.
She's only doing a surrogacy,literally for money.
That's all she wants.
She wants to start up her ownrescue for animals'cause she's

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big into animals and he's notthere like the most opposite
people that could live on thisplanet.

Devonnie (24:13):
Yeah, I agree.

Christina (24:15):
And Wyatt just starts to follow this woman around
trying to keep her out of whathe suspects to be danger for her
working with animals andanything she does, he's worried
her male counterparts wanna fuckher.
All this like he just, he's sopossessive of this woman and
she's WTF'cause she has nofamily and doesn't know what.

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Any kind of real connections inlife are she only like connects
with animals.
So, it's just really funnyseeing Wyatt chase her around
like a little puppy chasingafter his tail.
It's funny.
But as the series progresses oras the book progresses, we kinda
see Trita and Wyatt just decidedto be fuck friends and fuck

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through her pregnancy, to getthrough her cravings and his
cravings.
It's just funny.
We see so much comedy.
We see her really fall in lovewith Wyatt's family.
They're so grateful for her andwhat she's doing.
And she's never had anyone giveher gifts.
She's always been superself-sustainable, so she's like
really hesitant at first toaccept anything.
It takes her a long time to warmup, but it's really got the

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found family tropes.
I just really loved that.
I loved the comedy becauseTrista is gonna tell you what's
on her mind every time, even ifyou don't wanna hear it.

Devonnie (25:26):
Yeah.

Christina (25:27):
And Wyatt is just he's only led by

Devonnie (25:30):
a mountain

Christina (25:31):
yeah, He's only led by his id.
He just wants to get his dickwet and that's it all the time.

Devonnie (25:37):
No, I would not say that about him, but I, okay.
I disagree.
I also read nine month contract.
Well listened to it.
'cause Teddy Hamilton, I meanbabe.
And also Erin Mallon.
Erin Mal, I can't remember thefemale narrator's last name, but
I think her first name is Erin.
They've worked together a lot,so their chemistry's like really

(25:57):
cute.
But Wyatt, I think, I don'tthink he was led by his thing.
I think once he realized that,oh, I'm really attracted to her,
that was his game plan.
He was like zeroed in, like wecould really help each other.
I think he came to therealizations that he also liked
her a lot faster than she did.
But yeah, like I thought it wasfunny.
I thought it was funny.
The narrators make the jokesbecause it's also duet, so they

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chime in.
Right.
And that makes things a lot.
Yeah, I think that makes thingsa lot funnier.
So I feel like if you're gonnaread it, listen to it instead.
But yeah, I liked it.
I liked it.
It wasn't my favorite, but I didenjoy it.
But I will say, which actuallywill take me into my next rec
after you Jordan.
The reason I like this book isbecause I've read a lot of Amy

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DA's.
Books, and this book is aspinoff of a series of hers that
I've read.
So there were characters that Iknew about in this book already,
and it was really nice to seethem or hear about them again.
But yeah,

Christina (26:54):
that's great.
I hadn't read any other,anything else by this author.
But I do know that I think eachof his brothers gets a

Devonnie (27:00):
gets a Yeah.
Yes.

Christina (27:02):
Because they all

Devonnie (27:03):
oldest brother, right?
Yeah.
On the, his oldest brother has abook in the, his is the, like
one of the last books in theprevious series, and that's why
the Fletcher Brothers get theirown series.

Christina (27:15):
Got it.
Okay.
Yeah, I was really curious aboutthe older brother when I found
out that his new wife was a lotyounger and was the nanny.
I was like, oh, I

Devonnie (27:23):
was, yeah, that was good.
And her name is Cozy.
Yeah.
You got that book actually.
Is that the one I'm about to

Jordan (27:30):
Oh weird.
Another weird name,

Devonnie (27:34):
I actually think Cozies name is real cute.
I have no problems with Cozy.
Her name is Cozy.
She a Thickie and she's cozy.

Christina (27:41):
I will love that.

Devonnie (27:41):
I don't know what you're talking about?

Jordan (27:43):
Okay.
so

Christina (27:45):
Alright, Jordan, you're up.

Jordan (27:49):
I swear this is a different rec than my last one.
It is another hockey romance andit's part of a series, but this
one

Christina (27:58):
These guys know how to get to the goal.

Jordan (28:00):
I mean

Devonnie (28:02):
Wow.

Jordan (28:03):
So anyways, this is book three of the Jacksonville Rays
by Emily Wrath called PuckingSuite.
ed Emily before.
I love her just great.
I love her stuff.
This one might be my favoritefrom the series.
I still have to read the fourthone.
I've read the first three.

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This one follows Poppy St.
James, and she is the directorof public relations for the
Jacksonville Rays, which are theNHLs newest team.
So she's coming in first PRdirector of this organization.
She's gotta wrangle all thesenew guys, right?

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She is helping build thiscommunity.
And she's trying to make thiscity

Christina (28:52):
boss bitch.

Jordan (28:53):
yeah, she, they call her PR Barbie, like all the players
call her PR Barbie and they'reall terrified of her.
And she's this short thingrunning around in heels, but she
gets the job fucking done.
Everyone's scared of her,everyone, love her.
And we see her get the job donein the first two books in the
series.
This book shows what Poppy'sbeen doing behind the scenes, or

(29:18):
should I say

Devonnie (29:19):
I say

Jordan (29:20):
who?
Because, and they've beensneaking around, not just with
the team, bad boy Lucas Novikov,but also with his best friend
Colton Morrow.

Christina (29:34):
OMG.

Jordan (29:35):
choose M-M-F-O-K.
And so like in the other bookswe know they're best friends
'cause they've played togetherpreviously in their lives,
right?
So Colton and Lucas knew eachother and they're good friends.
We see in the previous book thatthey lived together for a little
while.
But we didn't see why and or wekind of knew why one of them

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gets hurt.
So they thought it was just tohelp out

Christina (30:01):
like a history.
We'll call them roommatesituation.

Jordan (30:04):
right.
But also in the kind of the endof the last book, we see them
get upset and not talk.
And no one on the team knowswhy.
And in this one you see thebehind the scenes and you see
why, what's happening.
Well basically, so, so pop backto Poppy.
She knew Colton from workingwith him in the previous team
that they worked with, right.

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I think it was in DC orsomething.
And he has always had a thingfor her, right?
And he just secretly pines, sothey've always been good
friends.
Right.
So they've made to contain agood friendship.
Prof, also professional in theworkplace.
There's never been anycrossover, but he has just had
to shove down deep his feelingsfor her.

Christina (30:46):
Love it when it goes deep.

Jordan (30:48):
yeah, so deep in this book.
And Poppy actually has her ownhistory with her own family that
they go uncover throughout.
And it's a really big thing.
If you know anything aboutEmily's books is there's always,
I don't know, just so manylayers of personal lives that
she weaves together really well,that feels really realistic in a

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sense.
But yeah, this is a pregnancytrope episode, so she keeps it
hidden because she is head ofpr, right?

Christina (31:18):
Ooh.

Jordan (31:19):
And when she finds out she's pregnant and she fucked
both of them separately for thefirst time in the same week,

Christina (31:28):
What a PR scandal.

Jordan (31:30):
And she doesn't know whose it is.

Devonnie (31:32):
That's crazy.

Jordan (31:33):
get fun,

Devonnie (31:35):
You know what I really love though?
I mean Okay, so

Jordan (31:39):
but you see the relationship and then she finds
out a few months like she findsout a little later, like she
realizes she's pregnant.
So you see their relationshipgrow and there's a good chunk of
the book before you get the, tothe pregnancy part.

Devonnie (31:51):
All three of them.

Christina (31:52):
A polyamorous relationship?

Jordan (31:54):
So Yes, it is.
And then when they find out it'sit's chill.
Yeah.
It's, yeah.
At first she's bouncing becauseshe's just I mean, she has this
history with Colton and she justhas this raw magnetism with
Lucas.
But she's not willing to commitand they're her players, so she
couldn't with either of them.

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And they're best friends and itjust is this big thing.
But then they come together.
Yeah.
So they end up having to talk itout, right.
And they work out what they wantand they, the way they approach
her, I will not tell you howthey approach her, but they
approach her together.
They're like, look, we're gonnado this.
We're gonna do this together.
Neither one of us has ever beenwith another woman, with another

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guy, but you're my best friend.
Why not?
Why can't we make this work?
I know you better than anyoneelse.
So they approach her togetherand they like corner her in this
very, and it's just oh, sorry Ihit my mic, but

Devonnie (32:49):
Don't you giggling to kick your feet?
Yes.

Jordan (32:53):
it was so good.
Oh God.
So this was probably my favoriteone that I've read.
But the pregnancy trope.
Surprise.

Devonnie (32:58):
love that.
I know,

Jordan (32:59):
Double the surprise.
We don't know who.

Devonnie (33:02):
Right, I love that

Christina (33:03):
a Mama Mia situation.

Jordan (33:05):
Yeah, you do find out eventually because

Devonnie (33:08):
Whose it is?

Jordan (33:09):
when they're born.
Yes.
Well, because one of them isblack, so he grew up black
playing ice hockey in Canada andlike that has its own part of
the story and so, but yeah, it'sso good.
So they're like, well, we'llfind out eventually.

Devonnie (33:24):
right?
So we're gonna go two ways here.
Okay.
My next rec is actually gonna bethe, an Amy Dos book, and it's
from the series that I wastelling you about.
It's, I think the series iscalled, wait for Me, but this is
called, this book is one moment,please.
They're all like.

(33:45):
Weird names take a line, take anum.
I don't know.
But this one is one momentplease.
And this is the third or fourthbook in this series.
It follows Lindsay, and I thinkJosh is the doctor, but she
calls him Dr.
Dick.
So honestly, all I can thinkabout is that his name is Dr.
Dick.
And not Dr.
Dick for the appendage.
Dr.
Dick, because he's an asshole.

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Okay?
He is an asshole.
Asshole.
In a previous book, you see howthey ended up having a one night
stand, I think in the book rightbefore it, or they basically,
there's a celebration, they endup having a one night stand, she
leaves, then something happensto her like a, a hinge date or
some kind of blind date gonewrong.

(34:27):
She ends up in the fricking er.

Christina (34:31):
Ooh.

Devonnie (34:32):
else takes her in than Dr.
Dick?
So they now realize, oh, it'syou, my one night stand, blah,
blah, blah.
And then he has to tell heryou're pregnant.
Did you know you were pregnant?
And then she has to say, well,that's crazy.
It's probably yours.
It is the wildest thing.
It the wildest thing.
And then he has to decide, likehe is very much treating this as

(34:55):
like a, whatever you wanna do, Isupport you.
But also I'm gonna be verystandoffish.
I'm gonna give you what youneed.
I'll be there for what you need.
But no emotions, no feelings, notogetherness.
And she just kind of wants tokeep her baby.
She doesn't wanna give up thebaby, she doesn't wanna lose the
baby.
Like she wants to keep her baby.
And that's the end of that.
So that's her plan, right?
Her own little person to love.

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But yeah, we see he moves herinto his house, I think.
And we see their relationshipdevelop.
He, I will say this, Amy Dosshas a very specific way of
writing.
It's very like comedy driven inthe way her female main
characters are snappy andeverything, but this book deals
with some heavy, like youunderstand why Dr.

(35:38):
Dick is the way he is, but it isso heartbreaking that it kinda
sucks the air out of you onceyou find out what

Christina (35:45):
Oh.

Devonnie (35:46):
It's really, and that, I hate saying that because you
might think, oh, I only wannaread a comedy.
95% of the book is a comedy, butthat 5% that keeps you from
understanding Dr.
Dick.
That's his trauma talking.
And it was really intense, but Ireally enjoyed it.
Again, Amy has this way of doingcomedy with her books.

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They kind of all feel formulaicin a sense that, you know, how
they're gonna be funny, but it'sall still very different.
Her characters are different andI love the way she weaves people
in and out of her stories.
You get glimpses of differentcharacters from different
spinoffs that she has.
So yeah, she ends up pregnant.
They have a baby as you do in apregnancy trope.

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But yeah, funny with a littlebit of trauma, just how we like
it.

Christina (36:33):
That's what every pregnancy seems to be.

Devonnie (36:35):
Yeah.
And Right.
You know, going down this list,I don't have not one just good
pregnancy trope to give you likeeverything.

Jordan (36:45):
Like

Devonnie (36:45):
Yeah.

Christina (36:47):
It's all trauma.

Devonnie (36:49):
I feel like ready or not might be the sweetest.
Yeah, nothing.
Everybody's got a little bit oftrauma

Jordan (36:56):
my first rec was probably the sweetest.
Those three little words, likegranted, it came from a one
night stand.
It was very like funny andsweet, but

Devonnie (37:05):
Yeah.
I would think Ready or not

Christina (37:07):
Mine has trauma.

Devonnie (37:09):
all of them.
Oh God.
What's your next rec?

Jordan (37:13):
Wow.

Christina (37:13):
here I go.

Jordan (37:14):
with a trauma.

Christina (37:15):
In the Monsters episode, I think I recommended
Stalked by the Kraken.
This is the Sequel, hoarded bythe Dragon, by Lillian Lark.
It's the same magical bathhouseseries.
I love

Jordan (37:26):
I remember loving

Devonnie (37:27):
Yeah, I remember.
Yeah.
Yeah.

Christina (37:30):
This one's great too.
We see those characters come upagain in this book, so I love
that.
But this book hits, my favoritelittle mini trope, which is the
breeding kink.

Devonnie (37:40):
We

Christina (37:40):
Love it.

Jordan (37:42):
Trip.
I.

Christina (37:42):
It's a, it's something in this one, lemme
tell you, because this is aboutKaterina who's like part witch,
part Faye, she's a thief.
She's trying to steal somethingfrom a dragon, right?
Miss Dragon callous catches her,oh, you know, trying to steal
something from his hoard.
Never Good idea.
Don't steal from a dragon.
I don't know why she thought shecould, but here you go.

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He's gonna turn her over to theauthorities and she's you can't
do that.
But she senses that he's inheat, so she's like, how about I
trade you a night for you to letme off the hook?
And he's okay, done.
We found out he has two dickswithin 20 pages.

Jordan (38:20):
Well, he's a dragon.
Of course he does.

Devonnie (38:22):
I beg your finest.
Pardon?

Christina (38:25):
Two and his first orgasm releases come that takes
away all your pain.
So you can take the second one,which has the knot, and I'm just
dying reading this.
I love it.
I'm just eating this up.
I'm like, yes, give me that andgimme that one too.
I want'em both.

Jordan (38:41):
it's been quite a few episodes since we've gotten a
graphic detail coming and goingand from Christina.
It's been

Christina (38:51):
one, is ribbed.
I want that.
It's ribbed.
The second one has a knot.
It's what every girl dreams ofDP with magical cu.
I mean, come on.

Devonnie (39:04):
I would have to say I'm not one of the girls
dreaming of it.
I'm, I fear I'm not one of thegirls dreaming of it.

Christina (39:11):
Oh well I am.
Okay.
Any who?
So,

Jordan (39:14):
she's literally just a girl.

Christina (39:17):
It's just a girl.
She's just a thief and she'sworking for

Jordan (39:21):
Oh, I was talking about you

Christina (39:23):
Oh, me?
Yes.
I am like, I'm just a DP girl.
Any who?
So Caterina has this what

Devonnie (39:34):
Right?

Christina (39:35):
it is.
Okay.

Devonnie (39:37):
Oh man.
Oh yeah.
Tell us about Catarina.

Christina (39:39):
Katerina, she's got this magic necklace that stops
you from getting pregnant.
All the witches wear it, right?
She didn't know she had tocharge it every single year to
keep its magic in it.

Devonnie (39:49):
You know

Christina (39:50):
Girls off the birth control and she don't even know
it.

Devonnie (39:53):
you know that tends to happen in real life too.
So like same Katharina.

Jordan (39:57):
and

Devonnie (39:58):
babe.
Like

Jordan (39:59):
are like the, those are like the girls who didn't listen
to their doctors and they said,you need to take this at the
same time every day.

Devonnie (40:04):
every day

Jordan (40:05):
It could be breakfast, it could be dinner, it could be
like,

Christina (40:08):
Whatever you

Devonnie (40:09):
Also she's a bad witch.
How do you forget to charge yourgems?
That's

Christina (40:12):
Oh, here.
That's the trauma She was born.
and lived in the wi in the humanworld until she was a teenager.
'cause her parents abandonedher.
So she's

Jordan (40:20):
Wow.
Dev way to judge too soon

Devonnie (40:23):
I know.
My

Jordan (40:24):
so insensitive.

Devonnie (40:25):
So it's, I'm sorry, Keri.
You're not a bad witch.
You are a child of yourcircumstance.
Sorry, girl.
I would've forgotten too.
My bad.

Christina (40:33):
Any who?
And Callo, he's a dragon.

Jordan (40:35):
her.
It's from the same person.
It's.

Christina (40:38):
Yeah.
It's a lot.
Literally.
It's a lot to handle.
Okay.
Anyways, Callo.
He doesn't think you can, as adragon, get anybody other than a
dragon pregnant.
So he's not worried.
Neither of them worried.
So they're just fucking allnight.
He's breeding her.
He's you know, pushing to comeback in, holding it with his
hand.
You're gonna take this, I'mgonna fill

Jordan (40:58):
Wow.
Way to really spoil the wholeplot.

Christina (41:02):
I am

Jordan (41:02):
Christie's

Christina (41:03):
all within the first 25 pages.
Okay?
Any who?
She goes home.
It was a magical night.
She's I'm ready to forget it.
Bam.
What is in her?
A dragon wing, A little babydragon.
He's I don't fucking believeyou.
As one does.
He's I can't get a witchpregnant.
It's never happened.
And there hasn't been a dragonborn in a hundred years.

(41:23):
Yeah, right.
He's go find the real dad.
And she's and she passes out andhe's catching her and he's oh my
God I can feel it.
It's my baby.
I'm dramatically recreating thescene.

Devonnie (41:32):
I can feel

Jordan (41:32):
I am riveted.
I'm here.
I am.
I'm in it.

Christina (41:35):
She wakes up and she's I don't want you, you
don't believe me.
So whole thing.
He moves her into his mansion.
'cause he's a dragon with a horand it's all gold everywhere.
He's gonna take care of her.
She wants to love him becauseshe's oh, I can have this
family.
He's no, I got trauma.
I got a dead mate and a deadbaby.
It ain't happening Woman.
This is a trauma dump.
I'm telling you.
Any who we see theirrelationship grow.

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He learns to trust her so muchstuff happens.
They go to the magical bathhouseand have amazing sex DP again.
He really loves butt plugs withher.
So I'll just leave it there.
But it's pregnancy for sure.
She got pregnant.
It's great.

Devonnie (42:12):
Wait, so does when the baby comes out, is the baby half
human half witch?
What's going on with the babywhen

Christina (42:17):
Yeah.
the baby can take on both forms.
Yeah.
So the baby turns into thedragon form when dad's holding
her and wants to eat meat andthen turns into the faith form
and wants to nurse on her.
It's so sweet.

Devonnie (42:30):
That's actually so cute.
I actually love that so much.

Christina (42:35):
I

Devonnie (42:35):
Damn, that birth though, that birth was
traumatizing,

Jordan (42:39):
Well, I feel like it would, because it was in the
mother then it would probablycame out looking halfway and
didn't turn into the dragonuntil

Devonnie (42:46):
till

Christina (42:47):
have babies through eggs, and this is the first time
a dragon's ever been born from alive person because they didn't
think this was ever possible.
So it's definitely like no oneknows what to expect.
So it's just, we're justlearning along with them,

Devonnie (43:00):
not her starting history, like making history.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
I love that for her.

Jordan (43:06):
I thought I was kind of going off script with my next
one being

Christina (43:10):
I'm sorry.

Jordan (43:11):
but I guess it's pretty tame.

Devonnie (43:15):
I I love that.
I don't think I've read a omegaverse pregnancy trope.

Jordan (43:19):
now this is interesting.
This is a little bit differentthan what we've, the situations
we've talked about.
I know I thought of you, this iscalled Unexpected Delivery by
Jillian West.
This was the

Christina (43:29):
I love Jillian West.

Jordan (43:31):
So it starts with Arbor, who is 38 weeks pregnant.
She is fleeing her volatile ex,well, he's only ex because she's
fleeing him.
So her boyfriend, they weretogether and you know, like
abusive relationships oremotional, physical, any kind

(43:54):
like.
You don't go into it thinkingthat's what it is.
She had just lost her dad.
She's, you know, she didn'treally have much and so her ex
kind of just had money and hegave her some security, but it
kind of, he slowly put her intothis place where she didn't have
any money, ability to get outand then she found herself

(44:17):
pregnant and she's I don't evenknow how I wasn't having heats
like,'cause she's an Omega.
Okay.
Just to be clear Arbor is theOmega.
And in this world, omegas areactually pretty rare.
It's not like one of those wherethey're all like, even, and
Alphas always fine in Omega andAlphas are always in a pack.
Like it's just kind of a littlebit more scattered.

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She just waits this wholepregnancy.
She waits for her chance to getout.
'cause she's I am not going toput my baby in this situation.
Right.
She had this moment where she'sif he's gonna do this to me, I
do not trust him not to do thisto our child.
She flees, she's 38 weeks.
She was trying to save any bitshe could by giving her money to

(45:01):
a friend so that he couldn'tfind it.
And her friend gave her thislike beater car that she had.
And so she drove from Arizonaacross all the way to Maine at
38 weeks pregnant.
To stay in like a family cabinthat her friend had out in the
middle of nowhere in Maine.
It was like outside of a smalltown.
And she ends up there, thisplace.
I don't think her friend didn'trealize how run down it was.

(45:23):
It wasn't being maintained.
So she's in this shit situation.
She has next to nothing and sheis ready to give birth.

Devonnie (45:30):
Yeah.

Jordan (45:31):
when she goes into town to get her car looked at, she
meets this mechanic who is avery handsome alpha, but she is
not like looking at that.
Right.
She is not like, she noticesthat he is really attractive and
he smells good, but that's asfar as it goes for her.
But then you see from his POV,like he can't stop thinking
about her.
And the whole time he'swondering like, where is her

(45:52):
alpha, why, where is this alpha?
Where is her pack?
This very pregnant woman whoneeds her car fixed, this car
shouldn't even be running.
Right.
And she doesn't have money tofix it.
And he ends up taking on this aspro bono, even though he can't
really afford to.
And he is getting his friendbuddies to help.
And he's just pissed the wholetime, right.

(46:14):
Thinking about this poor Omega.
And, he's like I'm not heralpha.
I can't ask her these things.
Anyways, snowstorm hits and ofcourse, as she's going into
labor.

Devonnie (46:24):
she, ugh,

Christina (46:25):
Ooh.

Jordan (46:26):
She goes into labor early and she's by herself.
She's do I stay out here bymyself or do I try to go?
So she tried to get outta therebefore it got too bad, right?
And go to the hospital and hercar slid and she ended up in a
ditch, right?
Going into labor.
And they have him.
And so this mechanic and his twopack mates who are twins, so the

(46:46):
pack is this guy twins who arevery different.
They're identical, but they arevery different and they're not
the type of twins that are superclose.
So it's a really interestingdifferent dynamic.
But they stop, see this car inthe ditch, and Morris.
Recognizes the car and so theyget out, they get her.
One of the twins actually was amedic in the army.

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So he's got, he knows how todeliver a baby.
He has this training they can'tget because of the roads, they
can't necessarily get to thehospital.
Everything is closed.
They take her back to theirhouse where he delivers the baby
and all three of them worktogether to deliver her

Christina (47:27):
Aw.

Devonnie (47:27):
Oh,

Jordan (47:28):
I know, and this is the beginning of the book.
I'm like going into it now thatI'm telling.
It's so interesting.
But they all feel this pull toher like this and so they had
called 9 1 1, right?
Finally, when the medics getthere to bring her to the
hospital, the baby is alreadyborn.
But he feel this connection nowto the baby too, and her like.

(47:51):
More.
It just, it was such a momentand for all three of them, and
you see it from their differentperspectives and like the things
that they're feeling and the waythey wanna support and the
things, it is just so sweet.
But then she doesn't wanna givethe hospital her real name.
There's all this stuff.
She doesn't have insurance.
They really, she doesn't haveinsurance and they don't know

(48:12):
her full story yet, but they cantell something bad happened.
'cause they can see fadedbruises and things.
And so one of them is claims herbaby as his and says, we're her
pack and gives them the stuff.
So insurance fraud.
But they're all, they're trying,like instantly trying to take
care of her, right?
And so they insist on her cominghome with them afterwards and

(48:32):
take care of her.
And it's just like thisevolution of.
Of opening up to each other andcaring for her, not just her,
but also for the baby that theyalready feel responsible for.
Yeah.
So, and you know, like it was sodifferent of a pregnancy trope.
And the whole time also part ofthe, they're like having to tell

(48:54):
themselves like, okay, you needto calm down.
She doesn't need this from you.
Even though you wanna see her,go through all the stages of
pregnancy, not just the end,like they're already like, you
know, but it's just so sweet andhelping her unravel her trauma
and getting her to open up andin a very respectful way, a

(49:15):
non-threatening way.
And they just try to be thatsafe place for her.

Devonnie (49:20):
I love that.
I also love pregnancy tr bookswhere the the pregnancy happens
early, like the delivery happensearly, so you get to see the
relationship with the baby, withwhoever it is, whether it's the
dad or like people who step up.
I think that's one of myfavorites too.

Jordan (49:35):
And it's hard.

Devonnie (49:36):
I love

Jordan (49:36):
for me, it's hard to read.
I don't like reading these bookswhen she has a new baby or a
young kid and you don't see anytime with the kid or the baby
and they're doing all thesethings.
And I'm like, no, mom,especially new mom is gonna
leave that much.
And you see that in this book.
You see her struggle like in thepostpartum the first time she

(49:59):
has to leave her baby even justfor an hour.
Right.
Because there, we all rememberthat moment.
Mine was to go to the grocerystore, like that struggle, that
whole situation.
So

Devonnie (50:13):
yeah.

Christina (50:13):
read other Omega verse by Jillian West and she
writes it really well.
I really love

Jordan (50:17):
Yeah.

Devonnie (50:18):
Oh, nice.
I'll have to Recent Julian West,I have a million other pregnancy
trope books.
I'm not gonna tell you.
I mean my top, my, I will say,I'll plug this one because y'all
already know My top like God toyour pregnancy trope book will
have to be out on a limb by headof bottom young.
That is my ride or die pregnancytrope, Kara's, ready or not, was

(50:44):
good and made me cry out on alimb.
Had me sobbing, like sobbingtears, but also laughing really
hard.
Lots of trauma in that one aswell.
'cause yeah, we apparently don'tread Just happy little
pregnancies over here.
What the hell?
So yeah, that's like myfavorite.
And then.
Another one that also, ohsurprise, has a lot of trauma,
is reckless by Elsie Silver,which is a part of her Chestnut

(51:06):
Spring series.
So freaking good.
The female main character iskind of a bitch, or everyone
positions her as being a bitchbecause of her like background
with, in the first book with hersister.
Yeah, so you kind of know her asthis, like evil doctor bitch or
something.
But then she lets her hair downwith a little young bull rider

(51:27):
and ends up pregnant.
He goes on tour and thenbasically when baby girl is
almost one, essentiallyrealizes, wait a minute.
She looks like me.
And that's really, that's thesituation.
She did not tell him about thebaby.
She, I think it was part of notwanting to end his career, but
also he was young and also therewere a lot of things and she,

(51:48):
this was her baby.
She wanted to, she has trauma.
She wanted to raise the baby.
I think how she went about itwas like terrible.
'cause she didn't tell him atall.
She didn't give him a chance.
And I feel like always give thechance, if they disappoint you,
fine, but give the chance.
'cause he ended up missing, heends up missing the entire
pregnancy and months of hisdaughter's life, which like when

(52:10):
he finds out that it's hisdaughter, it's heartbreaking to
read that part.
So yeah.
Again, trauma.
But that was also a goodpregnancy book.
Another one quick mention, awakeat dawn by Emily Reese.
It's book two in her series.
It follows a girl who getspregnant by her fricking boss,
like Gemma, please.
She gets pregnant by her bossand then her brother's best

(52:31):
friend needs somebody to babysithis dog.
That's how these two gettogether.
Okay.
The boss wants nothing to dowith her.
The brother's best friend needssomebody to watch his dog.
She moves in because also herapartment living situation's a
mess.
And yeah, he becomes likepsychotic when it comes to take
like golden retriever andDoberman Energy over her

(52:51):
pregnancy and being pregnant.
Like he is very much hands on asif he's the dad.
He's reading books, he's takingnotes.

Christina (52:58):
Aw,

Devonnie (52:59):
Yeah, it's actually

Christina (53:00):
love that.

Devonnie (53:00):
and really tender.
Yeah.
It's

Jordan (53:02):
of though being pregnant was seeing

Devonnie (53:03):
Oh yes.
That's the best.
I'm telling you, when they likestep up and they're like the
baby's the size of a taco.
Should you be bending that low?
Like just weird information,like what are you doing?
So yeah, at that I do reallylove, I enjoy pregnancy trope.
Yeah, I don't know.
I get why people hate it.
I'm not gonna say, oh, no oneshould hate it.
I get why people hate it.
'cause it can be rough and alsonot that good.

(53:25):
Some of it is written verypoorly, but yeah, I think the
recs I gave y'all are goodplaces to start.
I

Jordan (53:31):
But that's any trope.
I just wanna say I, I get, so Iguess I wanna say I don't, I
necessarily feel the same asyou.
I don't understand why people.
Hate'cause I, you know, have myown feelings towards a lot of
them.
But I still recognize that thereare good books in it.
And you can say that's not foryou.
You don't have to say it shouldnot be in romance.
Like those people who are thatoutspoken about it, just don't

(53:55):
read it.
It's not for you.
It off and just chill.
Take an edible and just zone outfor a bit.

Devonnie (54:01):
Yeah.
Because I don't know if younotice, but the world gets
populated by pregnancy trope.
You are friends because ofpregnancy trope.
You are alive because ofpregnancy trope.
Be so for real.
It's in real life.
It's in the books.

Jordan (54:16):
I think it's'cause it's women going through life and
even as women, we hate

Devonnie (54:21):
And people hate women.
Is that, yeah.

Jordan (54:23):
A lot of women hate women too.

Devonnie (54:25):
So many women hate women, which also y'all touch
grass.
For real.

Jordan (54:29):
or reflect on that and think why you're feeling this
way because.

Devonnie (54:32):
Yeah.
Most, yeah.
Most of the people reading andsaying, speaking out are women
reading romance and saying itdoesn't belong.
I, like you said, there are somany genres of books out there.
There are so many tropes like.
Some of them have really badbooks in them.
Absolutely.
But there are also somebeautiful gems like out on a
Limp by Hannah Bonum Young thatyou can really like, enjoy and

(54:55):
love.
So just find what works for you.
Find the version of pregnancytrope like for you Jordan Omega
verse and you know, and athrouple situation or you know,
They were a cute littlethrouple.
You know, find the,

Jordan (55:08):
Find your dragon

Devonnie (55:09):
Yeah, find your dragon with the double penetration and
your A oh three KY Laurenseries.
Like there, are options.
Just find something that worksfor you.
That's my, let me

Christina (55:19):
That's why we're here.

Devonnie (55:20):
box.
Right?
That is why we're here to showyou that there are so many
different versions of pregnancytrope, and you might like one of
these that we just told you.
And if you do, go comment on theflyer for this episode and tell
us what your favorite pregnancytrope book is.
We'd love to hear it and alsosee if we've read it.

Jordan (55:37):
So thanks for listening

Christina (55:38):
Dev probably has.

Jordan (55:40):
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Devonnie (56:10):
Bye

Christina (56:10):
bye.
Thanks.

Devonnie (56:12):
get pregnant tonight.

Jordan (56:14):
it up.

Christina (56:15):
Don't be silly.
Wrap your.