Midnight Shift (Episode Five): a Shapeshifter Menage Serial Romance by Renee George

Author:Renee George [George, Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: a Werewolf/ Paranormal Romance Seria
Published: 2015-05-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“Interesting.” Helen Downing, midwife extraordinaire, well versed in other reproduction, tapped her lower lip with the bell end of her stethoscope. Benie was four months into her pregnancy now, and the midwife had insisted she get an ultrasound. Especially since her frequent bouts of fever when Trace and Ian weren’t near kept reoccurring. But getting an ultrasound meant Benie had to leave the safe house and go to the midwife’s office. It was the first time she’d been out in the world in two months. She’d jumped at the chance.

Helen the midwife had a round face with gray hair and gray eyes, which made her pale, nearly white skin almost pasty-looking. Needless to say, she gave Benie the jitters. It was hard to trust someone who didn’t register on the color scale. But Helen had been attentive and kind, and Benie felt a little bad for judging her based on appearance alone.

Ty Wasape and Eustan waited out in the hall at Gray’s insistence that they take extra security. As Benie’s pregnancy developed, he worried Garrick would grow desperate in his plan to get rid of her.

Benie suffered through the cold gel and the even colder roller ball Helen pressed into her stomach without even the hint of a sigh.

The midwife’s eyes narrowed at she looked at the screen just out of Benie’s view.

“Interesting,” Helen said.

Trace and Ian stood beside her, looking at the ultrasound picture as if it were some ancient text no one could decipher.

“Interesting?” Benie rubbed her slightly bulging tummy. The cold gel for the ultrasound was still tacky to the touch. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

The midwife blinked rapidly and worried her lower lip. “Not sure.”

“Is there something wrong with the baby?” As if cued, a fluttering movement tickled her abdomen.

Benie’s lovers said nothing, and there was more blinking from the midwife.

“Is there some kind of weird abnormality?” Benie groaned and closed her eyes. “Please don’t tell me it has two heads.” She was only partially joking. The way they were all looking worried her.

“Sorta.”

“Holy shit! I have a two-headed baby?”

“Not exactly.” The midwife pulled the ultrasound monitor into Benie’s line of sight. “You have a triple uterus.”

“A what?”

“Triple uterus. It’s like you have three uteruses in one. Sort of looks like a fleur de lis. But that’s not the unusual part…”

Irritated, Benie yanked her gown down and sat up. “Of course, having three wombs isn’t unusual enough. There has to be more.”

“I don’t know how to tell you this, but you have two fetuses.”

“Twins?” The room started spinning. “I feel sick.”

“Not twins. I’d say the fetus in the middle is about four months, while the one on the right is approximately two months.”

Covering her eyes, Benie lay back on the exam table. “This is not happening.”

“I recommend we terminate the younger fetus.”

“Well, I recommend you stop calling it a fetus.” Benie sat up again. Her balled fists clenched and unclenched. She narrowed her eyes at Helen. “It sounds like you’re talking about a pickled pig ready for dissection.

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