Chapter 64: Embryo

Moana

Swallowing my anger over Edrick’s sudden choice to leave me at the hospital overnight and chalking it up to him simply wanting to protect his daughter, I took a deep breath and opened the car door before stepping out.

I walked into the spacious lobby, where a secretary was sitting at a small desk. She shot me a confused look as I entered.

“Ma’am, this is a werewolf hospital,” she said, her tone of voice sounding flat and annoyed.

This angered me even more than what Edrick had said in the car.

“I know,” I replied, walking up to her desk. “I have an appointment.”

The secretary stared at me for a moment, looking me up and down briefly, before she returned to slowly chewing her gum and clicking around on her computer. “Name?”

“Moana Fowler,” I replied.

on the second floor. The elevator is over there.”

button for the second floor. As I waited for the doors to open again at my destination, I realized that I was touching my stomach nervously,

can go home. There’s no need to go through with

I ignored her.

inside of the gynecology department, to no surprise, was extremely nice with large windows that looked out over a courtyard below and rows of plush chairs in the waiting area. Soft classical music played. Scattered around the room were various other patients waiting for their appointments; there were a few couples and some single women. All of them, of course, looked up at me when I entered, immediately noticing from my lack of a scent that I was a human. One of the women turned and whispered something to her husband as I passed. I overheard her say something about how I didn’t belong here, but I chose to ignore her and instead

young nurse working at the desk, who thankfully smiled warmly at

computer, then looked back up at me and smiled again. “You’re all set, Miss Fowler. You can take a seat and

couple again before I found a

to grow more and more nervous. Each time the nurse came out, I would feel my heart leap, only for it to relax again as she would call

it was my

There was a comfortable bed and a couch inside with a nice, big window and even a small kitchenette. The medical equipment, however, ruined the otherwise

in,” the nurse said, giving me a hospital

couldn’t bear my racing heart anymore. I wished, even though we weren’t romantically involved, that Edrick had

man with a bit of a hunch in his back as he

warm smile that helped me relax. “I

I nodded.

to see exactly how far along the pregnancy is,” he said then.

though nodding was the only thing I could do, as words didn’t seem to be capable of coming out of my mouth because of the enormous lump in my throat. I laid back and put my feet up in the stirrups as the doctor asked. My heart raced as he began the internal ultrasound, and I closed my eyes against the feeling of the probe

hated those internal ultrasounds. The doctor helped me sit up again, then reached out and

ask…

change my mind. I didn’t know

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