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.

appointment. She then wrote my name down on a name tag sticker and handed it to me. “You’re on the second

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

go home. There’s no

I ignored her.

second floor. I stepped out and followed the signs down the hall to the gynecology department, then walked through a set of large glass double doors. The 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

working at the desk, who thankfully smiled warmly at me. “I have an appointment. Last name is

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

again before I found a seat by

more nervous. Each time the nurse came out, I

however, it was

couch inside with a nice, big window and even a small

be right in,” the nurse said,

and I couldn’t bear my racing heart anymore. I wished, even though we weren’t romantically involved, that Edrick had come here with me. It was terrifying to be doing

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 back as he walked, but his eyes were bright and

warm smile that helped me relax.

I nodded.

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

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

ultrasound was over quickly; I had always hated those internal ultrasounds. The doctor helped me sit up

protocol for me to ask… Would you like to see the ultrasound before you make your

the ultrasound, but I also worried that seeing the embryo would change my mind. I

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