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.

clicked around some more, muttering under her breath, before she seemed to find my appointment. She then wrote my name down on a name tag sticker and handed it to me. “You’re on the second floor. The elevator is over there.” She pointed behind herself without even turning, then promptly returned to clicking at her computer. I

I stepped on, then pressed the button for the second floor. As I waited for the doors to open again at my destination, I realized

said. “You can go home. There’s no

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 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

to the young nurse working at the desk, who thankfully smiled warmly at me. “I have an

me and smiled again. “You’re all set, Miss Fowler. You can take a

and walked past the gossipy couple again before I found

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

however, it was my

to my private room. There was a comfortable bed and a couch inside with a

will be right in,” the nurse said,

made me feel even more exposed and I couldn’t bear my racing heart anymore. I wished, even

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

said with a warm smile that helped me

I nodded.

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

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

ultrasound was over quickly; I had always hated those internal ultrasounds. The doctor helped me sit up again, then reached out and patted my hands comfortingly as they

that’s done, it is protocol for me to ask… Would you like to see the ultrasound before you make your

freezing for a moment. Of course I wanted to see the ultrasound, but I also worried that seeing the embryo would change my mind. I didn’t know what to do, but finally, my

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