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.

the second floor. The elevator is over there.” She pointed behind herself without even turning, then promptly returned to clicking at her computer.

I waited for the doors to open again at my destination, I realized that

go home. There’s no need to

I ignored her.

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

working at the desk, who thankfully smiled

back up at me and smiled again. “You’re all set, Miss Fowler. You can

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

however, it was

inside with a nice, big window and

right in,” the nurse said, giving me a hospital gown

I put on the hospital gown. It made me feel even more exposed and I couldn’t bear my racing heart anymore. I wished, even though we weren’t romantically involved, that Edrick

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

I nodded.

how far along the pregnancy is,” he said then. “Go ahead and

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

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

he said. “Now that that’s done, it is protocol for me to ask… Would

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 curiosity got the

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