Page 47 of Amor Prohibido

With a snort, I turned my back and suppressed a snide comment about having seen it all before. I gave her privacy until I heard the bed rustle and the blanket flick back into place.

“Done,” she murmured.

I re-linked our fingers and my pulse stuttered when hers squeezed back.

Doctor Westbrook’s pretty face peeked through the curtain. “Ready?”

Jax nodded.

“Alrighty. I need you to bring your feet together, draw your knees up, then let them fall wide. I’m going to insert this probe into your va—”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold the hell on! You’re gonna shove that up my vjay?” Jax exclaimed in horror while clamping her knees together. She eyed the giant white dildo-shaped probe in the doctor’s grip.

The doc snickered a little. “Yes. During early gestation, we do a vaginal ultrasound because it’s more sensitive and picks up greater detail. I promise it’s not going to hurt. You’ll feel slight pressure as I manoeuvre it into position, but other than that, you won’t feel a thing. Now, knees wide.”

Jax visibly swallowed her apprehension and slowly lowered her knees as requested. She sucked in a quick breath as soon as the probe got close to her girly bits and her grip tightened on mine.

“Not a word of this gets breathed outside of this room,” she hissed at me through her clenched teeth while I tried to look everywhere else butthere.

I couldn’t help but chuckle at the fact that she was spread on her back with a giant medical dildo lodged inside her in the most non-sexual way possible.

“Promise me!” J snarled and dug her nails into the top of my hand.

“Ow, damn. Yes! I promise!”

Once that distraction passed, we fell silent. The only sound was an occasional click as Doctor Westbrook tapped buttons on the ultrasound machine. Jax winced a few times, which immediately made me guilty for making fun of her.

“Have you had a scan before today?” the doctor asked, still looking at the screen we couldn’t see.

“No,” J replied in a whisper. “This is my first one.”

Christ, my heart panged hard for this girl.

“Okay.” She nodded and turned her attention to Jax. “As far as I can tell, everything is normal with no obvious signs of distress or indications that your pregnancy is not progressing like it should. Do you want to see the screen now?”

Jax and I let out a collective sigh of relief. “Oh my god, yes please.”

Doctor Westbrook removed the wand from between Jax’s legs, then rotated the screen so we could see. “I’ll try an external scan since your bladder is pretty full. I think we should be able to see what’s going on in there.”

Jax scoffed and scowled at her while she wasn’t looking. I smothered my grin because I knew what Jax was thinking:too bad she didn’t try that in the first place before going the whole hog with the dildo.But then again, I chalked it up to an experience we would someday laugh about.

Doctor Westbrook tugged the blanket down to expose J’s lower belly, and I was surprised to see a hint of a bump already. The last time I’d laid eyes on this part of her flesh, it had been as flat as a board. The doc squirted lube onto Jax’s stomach, which made my eyebrows rise. As soon as the small wand touched down on her skin, the screen flickered to life, and I saw… I saw...

“Uh… What are we meant to be looking at?” I couldn’t see anything that remotely resembled a tiny human. Just a whole lot of black and white splodges and shading.

“Just getting into position…” She trailed off in concentration, then pointed to a tiny peanut shape on the screen. “There is your baby. Its heart is beating strongly, and you can see it’s moving around a lot…”

I couldn’t hear anything aside from the blood roaring in my ears. There it was. The baby we made together, alive and flickering in all its tiny glory. I let a tear roll unchecked down my cheek, then swiped it off before Jax noticed. The amount of relief washing through me was intense. Euphoric even. It swept through my body, ridding the fear, and replacing it with calm.

“Andthere,” the doctor continued, “is that baby’s brother or sister, who also has a strong heartbeat, just like its sibling.”

What. The. Actual. Fuck!

I jumped to my feet and took as many paces back as I could until my back hit the wall—the distance was precisely two steps.

“Jason!” Jax exclaimed and glared at me with large, round eyes.

I stammered and stumbled over my thoughts as I looked from her to the doc. “You… You’re saying… So, what you’re telling us is…?”

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