Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 70

Chapter 70

His

s drilled into mine, a deep concern veiling them, “Can’t it be for any other reason?”

“Like what?” I couldn’t deny I was fishing for something more.

His lips barely moved as he spoke, “I just want you to be well.”

“…Sounds like something you’d say at a family Thanksgiving dinner.”

A thought flickered through my mind, and before I knew it, a smile crept up, “Save it for Timothy’s birthday bash next month.”

Wishing me health. Wishing himself a lifetime of happiness with Margaret?

When the nurse came to draw my blood, I instinctively pulled back as she disinfected my arm, my body tensing up.

I was scared. I’d always been scared.

As a kid, it was always Dad who held me, with Mom gripping my other hand, coaxing me through every needle and every blood draw.

And there were always rewards.

But over these past years, my health had been decent. A common cold here, some over-the-counter meds there – hardly ever needing blood drawn.

fear never really faded. But fear or not,

“Don’t be afraid.”

back of my hand as he

“You being

doesn’t make it

the pain with you.” His voice was velvety

over me, now half-kneeling by my side, filling my heart and yet, stirring a pang of sadness. I

he didn’t catch it. “What did you say?”

I shook my head.

are better kept inside than voiced.

draw, I was off to the

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Bryant waited outside.

applied the gel, then handed me tissue to wipe it off after he was done,

the pregnancy sooner or later, but

soon.

as the examining doctor smiled at me, “Mrs. Ferguson, you’re pregnant, aren’t

“I… know.”

together,

weeks now. Look, you can already see tiny

“Really…”

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