Page 51 of The Homewrecker's Fate

“I don’t mind if Mel gets her flirt on with Trent. He was pretty freaking incredible. Everyone loved him,” Brax added. I was going to lick him head to knees later as a reward, even if this whole ordeal made me feel too tired to be horny.

“Anyway,” I rambled and waved off the glare Rich aimed at me. “He was amazing, and Mel exchanged numbers with him. The awesome thing is that, like Brax, he didn’t mind that she was pregnant with someone else’s baby. He simply appreciated Mel for who she is and the circumstances she was stuck in no thanks to…” I cut myself off, as if I just realized it would be rude to talk shit about Mel’s ex-husband with him staring me in the face. I giggled. “Oops, well, you know the rest.”

“I never took you for a bitch, Avi.”

“I never took you for a married father of two with another on the way. Nor did I take you for a chronic liar, but here we are.”

Mel started to laugh and couldn’t stop herself after that. She broke into the worst giggle fit I’d ever seen a pregnant woman have and then she excused herself to run out to the bathroom just down the hall.

Brax leaned across me to get Rich’s attention. “You ever call Avi or Mel a bitch again, you’ll deal with me in a way you aren’t ready to handle.”

Rich rolled his eyes, but I’d seen Brax working out and the man was not only stacked with lean muscle, but he was fast. He was also a black belt in Karate and something else, but I didn’t think Rich was aware of that.

By the time Mel came back, they were ready for her. She and Rich went back to the doctor’s office, and I blew out a breath of frustration. “Thank God he won’t be out here to make a scene when I’m called back,” I mumbled.

“Something tells me he doesn’t have the balls to do that.”

“I think you’re underestimating his pettiness. There’s a reason he showed up to Mel’s doctor appointment today, and I don’t think it is because he suddenly cares about her, or the baby he isn’t sure belongs to him.”

“I was thinking the same thing. He’s trying to get one up on me, but he doesn’t realize his real competition is Trent now.”

By the time I was called back to the office, Mel still hadn’t come out of her appointment, so the worry of Rich making a scene was gone. Brax followed me back and watched as I was weighed and had my blood pressure taken. Then we were escorted back to the exam room before the nurse offered me a cup and asked me to go pee in it. I rolled my eyes but turned back to Brax.

“Listen up and see if they have plans for it,” I teased. He laughed as I walked out the door and went to do my business. As I was headed back to the room where I’d left Brax, I could hear raised voices up near the front.

“She is carrying my baby,” Rich’s voice demanded.

Shit!

“Sir, you were just here with your pregnant wife,” the nurse reminded him.

“I know! I cheated on my wife. Is that what you wanted to know! I admit it. It’s not like they both don’t know at this point. Aviva Acker is carrying my child, too, and I need to go back there for this visit.”

“Sir, please calm down and we’ll check with Ms. Acker if it is okay for you to come back with her.”

“Why do you have to check? It’s my baby.”

“It’s her body, her healthcare, and if she doesn’t want you there, then you don’t get to be there. If you want rights to the baby once she gives birth, then you can go to court and obtain those rights. For now, we are concerned with the rights of our patient.”

The minute the woman turned to come down the hall to find me, she saw me standing there. I shook my head, and she turned right back around.

“I’m sorry, sir. You are not welcome back for this patient.”

“Dammit!” He yelled. “Aviva!” His voice boomed through the office loud enough that Brax came out of the exam room and the doctor came out of another room and headed up front.

“Pam, call security. Sir, you will not behave like a child in this office. You need to leave immediately.”

“That woman is pregnant with my child, and I have a right to know the status of its health.”

“Jesus, the asshole can’t even remember you’re having a girl.”

I turned to see Brax as he clenched his fists and released over and over. “Come on, let’s go wait in the room. This might be my last visit here, considering he caused this scene.”

“Don’t worry, Dr. Martinez doesn’t hold things like that against his patients,” a passing nurse stated.

“Do things like this happen often?” I asked.

She rolled her eyes. “More than you’d think.” Another nurse laughed with her. “Some days, it’s like one of those talk shows where they go through thirteen dads trying to find the one that fathered the baby, only they’re all here.”

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