“I’mhaving a baby?”
“I didn’t mean it like that.”
I know what he must be thinking, and it’s my fault it’s in his head, as both things happened at almost the same time.“Let me be clear,” I say, my eyes not leaving his, “I didn’t sleep with Matt.”
“I didn’t ask.”
“But you were thinking about it.I’m letting you know.I didn’t have sex of any kind with Matt on New Year’s Eve or any other time; you were the only one.”
“If you had doubts about who the father is, I know you would tell me.I’m glad you told me, but I didn’t ask.”
“I know you didn’t.”I also know how his mind works.Like most men, I’m sure there was a degree of doubt.I haven’t had sex with Matt, but I am leaving out the part where I’m still seeing him and we’ve gone on a few dates, which I don’t think he needs to know about yet.Things have been pleasant between us so far, and I can’t handle any more stress—I have enough.
“Did they do a sonogram?”
“No, the doctor said everything looks and sounds fine.”
“He knows this without doing a sonogram?”
“Yes,” I say at the same time he turns and walks toward the door.“Where are you going?”
“You’re not stepping one foot out of this hospital until you have a sonogram.What kind of slip-shod operation are they running here?You have a concussion, find out you’re pregnant, you can’t leave without someone escorting you home, you have to be monitored for the next forty-eight hours, and they’re letting you leave without a sonogram?”
“Nick, please don’t make a scene.I’m sure the baby is fine.I hit my head, not my stomach.It is early in my pregnancy.”
“Like I said, you’re going to have a sonogram.”
They better give me a sonogram, or heads will be rolling if they don’t.
Fifteen minutes later a nursecomes into my room.
“Ms.Reed, I’m here to take you for your sonogram.”
“That was fast.”
“There was a very persistent gentleman who insisted you have a sonogram immediately, and if you didn’t, things were going to happen.”
“What kind of things?”I ask her, groaning inwardly.
“Legal things the chief of staff doesn’t want any part of.”
She helps me into the wheelchair, and I put my hand over my face.I can’t believe he did that.“How embarrassing.”
She rolls me into another room and I lie on the exam table and wait for the sonogram tech.
“Cat?”
“I’m in here,” I say, hearing Nick call my name.
“Are you okay?”
“Did you threaten the hospital with a lawsuit?”
“I told them I was your legal representative and it would be in their best interest before you walked out of here to give you a sonogram.”
“Uh, that’s all you said?”
He holds his hands up with a lopsided grin.“Yes.”
