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.

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

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

said. “You can go home. There’s no

I ignored her.

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

to the young nurse working at the desk, who thankfully

her computer, then looked back up at me and smiled again.

and walked past the gossipy couple again before I found a

time the nurse came out, I would feel my heart leap, only for it to relax again as she would call another

however, it

bed and a couch inside with

said, giving me

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

door. He was a short older man with a bit of a hunch in his back as

with a warm smile that helped me relax. “I

I nodded.

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

my throat. I laid back and put my feet up in the stirrups as the doctor asked. My heart raced as he began

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

gulped, 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 curiosity got

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