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.

and handed it to me. “You’re on the second

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

can still turn around,” Mina said. “You can go

I ignored her.

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

working at the desk, who thankfully smiled warmly

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

walked past the gossipy couple again before

sat, I only began to grow more and more nervous. Each time the nurse came out, I would feel my heart leap,

it was my

a comfortable bed and a couch inside with a nice, big window and even a small kitchenette. The medical

will be right in,” the nurse said, giving me a

and I couldn’t bear my racing heart anymore. I wished,

the doctor came in with a soft knock on the door. He was a short older man with a bit of a hunch in his

smile that helped me relax. “I hear you’re coming in

I nodded.

to see exactly how far along the pregnancy

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

always hated those internal ultrasounds. The doctor helped me sit up again, then reached out and patted my hands comfortingly as they sat clenched together

that’s done, it is protocol for me to ask… Would

but I also worried that seeing the embryo would change my mind. I didn’t know what to do, but finally, my curiosity got the best

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