Page 80 of Family Bonds: Coy & Angel

“You can call the doctor on Monday.”

“I don’t even have a doctor here,” she said. “I might not be able to get in.”

“On the island, one of the gynecologists is my cousin Ava.”

“So then one of your family members is going to know when it might just be making the rounds we are dating,” she said. “I don’t think I want to do that. I’ll try to get an appointment in Boston or maybe Plymouth. Wherever I can do it fastest.”

He’d prefer she stayed on the island so she could give birth here too, but it wasn’t something to talk too much about now.

“Whatever makes you comfortable. If you get an appointment, just have them reschedule you at work. It’s easy enough and things happen all the time.”

She sighed. “And that’s another thing. We hadn’t even decided when we were going to tell everyone at work we were dating and now I’m going to have to say I’m pregnant.”

“You don’t have to say anything,” he said. “I’m the boss and I don’t care.”

“That is what I mean about nothing changing for you.”

“Don’t go there,” he said. “My body might not be changing, but I’ve got a child coming to care for and support and love. Tohelp take care of. I’m not the type of person to be hands off. No one in my family is.”

She nodded. “We don’t know those things about each other,” she said. “You haven’t even told me how you feel about me.”

Her bottom lip started to crumble.

“Angel, if you don’t know I love you, then I’m sorry. I should have said the words. I know you love me, but everything is so new and I’m letting you try to take the lead in some areas. I know you want to prove to everyone you can do this on your own. That you’ve been watched over and never given much rope to live your life.”

She wiped her tears. “Thank you for that. I appreciate it. You would know because of Spencer. It wasn’t all that bad. I’m being dramatic and I’m sure hormones are playing a part in it,” she said. “My mother has been in my corner and supportive of me for the past four years. My father has been good too. But I’ve still had to rely on them financially for a lot of things.”

He knew her parents paid for her rent and any other expenses she had in dental school. Angel had the loans for the education, which was still several hundreds of thousands of dollars she’d be paying for years.

His parents paid for his and he always knew it. He was lucky and would never take things for granted.

“That isn’t a worry here. And I’m not thinking that you’re with me for those reasons because I can see it in your eyes you’re worried.”

“I am worried,” she said. “No one likes to be judged or talked about. I fell in love with you long before you were even a dentist.”

She put her hand in front of her mouth.

He pulled it away. “I didn’t know how you felt. And don’t worry about saying that. I don’t believe you knew what love was. I’m not holding you to that statement. You had a deep crush and lots of dreams and they are coming true.”

“Not the way I planned,” she argued.

“Some of them are.”

“People might think I’m devious,” she said. “That just occurred to me too.”

“No one is going to think you’re devious or calculated. Don’t think that. You had a crush. I’ve known you for half your life, which everyone is aware of. I think some might find it meant to be that we are together. Kind of one of those fate things on this island.”

“Don’t start sounding like your mother,” she said.

His mother had thrown that word out a few times when he and Angel broke the news of their relationship.

“Sorry,” he said, smiling. “I’m happy. Thrilled. Ecstatic.”

“Seriously?”

“Yes. I know this is a new relationship. I know you’re worried about a lot of things. I’m not aboutanything.”

“It’s so much easier when you’re the guy with all the money and the boss. No one says you’re looking for a free ride or trying to move up in life. That you trapped someone either.”

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