Page 23 of Oops Baby for the Billionaire
How about the date of conception?
That I know. Grimly, I give her the exact date. Could give her the time, too, right down to the minute, but that’s probably too much information.
Personal Support Obstetrician
She’s eighteen weeks pregnant, then. Nearing the halfway point. Today is probably her regular monthly check-up. She’s into the second trimester, and you’ll be able to hear the heartbeat.
Roman
That’s what she said. I’m in the waiting room.
Personal Support Obstetrician
Have a seat, then. Read a magazine. That’s what dads do.
Sit?Read?
That’s not what I do.
Instead, I pace. And I text people. I hired an external investigator to catch me up to speed on all things Willa now that I know her full name, and they send me a very brief dossier.
Does that count as reading?
It’s not much more than I already know. She’s twenty years old, and a student in the art department here at Appleton University.
The last line makes me pause, though.Address unknown.
I’m about to step into the hall to phone them about that when a nurse calls my name.
I shove my phone away and stalk down the hallway.
“Just through there,” the nurse says.
I push open the door and come to an abrupt stop.
Willa is on an exam table, her shirt pulled up to just below her breasts, and her pants pushed down to below the crest of her slight bump.
Except it’s not that slight when not covered up with clothes.
There’s a pronounced, defined shape to her belly.
It’s small.
She’ssmall.
But I think I thought…I don’t know what I thought. That if she lay down, the bump might be less noticeable?
“You can come in,” the doctor says. A subtle suggestion that I should close the door behind me, I’m sure.
I cross to Willa.
“I, uh, explained that you’re just finding out,” she whispers. “It’s okay.”
“Is she doing okay? Is she healthy?” I ask the doctor, but I don’t look up. I can’t tear my gaze away from Willa.
“She’s measuring right on track for eighteen weeks.”
Eighteen weeks. That’s what the obstetrician said. “And that’s halfway?”
