Having Nathan's Baby by Louise Fran

Author:Louise, Fran [Louise, Fran]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Fran Louise Books
Published: 2013-10-12T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

The doctor’s office was busy when I arrived. Nathan wasn’t there yet. I felt a stinging relief. The anticipation on seeing him never failed to increase my heartbeat, for good or for bad. I took a seat by the window and set about composing myself. I’d been eleven weeks along the last time I’d seen him, and now I was eighteen weeks. That was a long time in a baby’s forming life. It felt like a long time in a pregnant woman’s life, too. I frowned out at the bleak winter view over the park and my hand instinctively rested against my slightly rounded stomach. Though I was showing, it was still perfectly coverable behind loose clothes. Today I wore an empire waist dress in deep red, my hair pulled up into a messy bun. I stared at the obviously pregnant women around me, wondering how I’d look in a few months’ time when there was no hiding the bump.

I was tired. The last few weeks had worn on my energy levels. My appetite had waned and then re-emerged with a vengeance. I couldn’t eat enough and yet I was still losing weight; the baby seemed voraciously hungry all the time. I’d been keeping up with my workload, dealing with my regular responsibilities at work and otherwise, but the days had started to feel longer. This tiredness was different from the initial pregnancy exhaustion; it was psychological. My focus was changing, and it was exhausting trying to fight it. I would find myself drifting off in meetings, planning the baby’s room in my apartment, wondering what Nathan was doing, or making a growing list of questions for my gynecologist. It was getting harder and harder to focus on the here and now. I was done with my old life and not yet ready to face the new one. And now here I was, in the middle of a workday, at the clinic for my mid-pregnancy scan, going through lists in my head for work, for the apartment, for the baby... I breathed out, hoping Nathan’s assistant had gotten my message. He’d be annoyed to miss this, even if he hadn’t been in touch with me in any real sense since our argument at his brownstone.

I picked up a magazine and flicked through it. That wasn’t exactly true; he’d been in touch, but our communications had been brief, business-like and quite frosty, and all about the baby. He’d been supporting the band on tour in Europe, I’d heard. Rosalind had spent a few days with them in London; she had come back tight-lipped and uncomfortable. I had never mentioned it in detail, but her demeanor belied her knowledge that Nathan and I had had a pretty serious disagreement.

I shifted in my seat, and my mind jumped around like a flea on a mattress. I still couldn’t believe he’d left me that Friday and literally within two days had found another woman to shack up with in Vermont. Apart from anything

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