Page 105 of Burning Love
One of those things that never came up and he didn’t push nor ask much about her being there other than her stopping on the way home.
It was all clambering in her brain and shattering the happy future illusions she’d drummed up for herself.
She didn’t want to worry that she’d have a child and their father’s life was on the line and at risk.
How did her mother handle this?
Then she told herself she could be doing this on her own anyway and it was best to prepare for that and not that she’d fallen in love with her baby daddy.
The same guy who’d never been in a serious committed relationship and still had demons and trust issues with women.
She amped them up some by waiting the extra few days to admit she was pregnant. That was her mistake and she’d have to own it.
Yeah, talk about a recipe for disaster.
Why couldn’t they have continued on as they were in the beginning when everything was simple?
Because she realized now that nothing was simple with them.
She wasn’t sure she’d want it to be.
“Let’s not think that way. I’m not leaving your side through this. It’s my child too. We are in this together.”
“Okay,” she said, giving him a soft smile. “Thank you for that. You can come in.”
She’d push the embarrassment aside.
They got out and walked inside. She gave her name and took a seat. She’d done the online registration and answered all their questions already.
“Carlisle.”
She stood up with Jace and followed the nurse.
“That’s me.”
“I’m Adele and I’ll be your nurse today. Let’s go this way. I need to get a weight for you.”
She stepped on the scale, noticed the number, then turned her head and saw Jace looking away.
How sweet was that? Not that she cared in the least.
“I have a long way to catch up to you,” she said, elbowing him.
“There is no way you’re going to,” he said. “Unless you go through a lot of chocolate and ice cream. I’ve got you by over a hundred pounds.”
She laughed, but the nurse jumped in and firmly said, “It’s not healthy to gain more than thirty pounds on average. You’re on the small side, so might be able to get away with more.”
“Nope,” she said. “I’m a healthy person and I’ll do what I’m told.”
“That’s what we like to hear,” Adele said. She pulled a gown out. “If you can take everything off, opening in the back, and give us a urine sample. There are cups in the bathroom there.”
She took the gown and winked at Jace. He looked more uncomfortable than her. He sat in a chair in the corner and she did as instructed, then came out with the cup, set it on the counter to be tested, and climbed on the table.
The nurse took the sample away that she’d closed with her name on the side, then returned. “I just wanted to bring that to the lab quickly before I took your vitals,” Adele said.
“No problem.”
Talia sat through questions on how she was feeling, her eating habits, if she smoked or did drugs and any sexual partners she might have had in the past month.
