Nine Months to Tame the Tycoon--An Uplifting International Romance by Chantelle Shaw

Author:Chantelle Shaw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-06-03T12:38:10+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

‘ARE YOU SURE the baby is all right?’ Lissa asked the nurse who was pushing her in a wheelchair along the hospital corridor.

‘Baby is fine. Your pregnancy was constantly monitored while you were in intensive care, but you will feel more reassured when you have an ultrasound scan later today. We’ll get you settled in your room first.’

Lissa glanced around the pretty room they had entered. It was decorated in shades of pink and reminded her of a luxury hotel room. ‘This doesn’t look like a hospital ward.’

‘Mr Samaras arranged for you to have a private room,’ the nurse explained as she helped Lissa on to the bed. ‘Would you like me to put your photographs on the bedside cabinet? Mr Samaras brought them in,’ she said as Lissa looked puzzled when she saw two framed photos of her family that had been on the bureau in her apartment at Francine’s hotel.

She remembered that whenever she had opened her eyes Takis had been sitting next to her hospital bed. But her memory was vague. The doctor had explained that she’d been rushed to the hospital by ambulance and admitted to the intensive care unit after she had collapsed.

‘You experienced a thyroid storm, which is a rare complication of hyperthyroidism. Your thyroid levels were dangerously high, which caused your blood pressure to soar. The condition can be fatal if it is not treated quickly.’ The doctor was confident that Lissa’s pregnancy should continue normally with her thyroid condition controlled with medication. Although there was a risk that that she could go into labour prematurely.

‘How long have I been in hospital?’ she asked the nurse.

‘A week. You were very poorly for a few days. That handsome fiancé of yours has been very worried about you.’

Fiancé? Lissa’s memory was becoming clearer. Takis had demanded that she marry him, but she had never agreed she would. Thankfully, her baby was unharmed by what had happened to her. She wondered if Takis had been worried about the baby, or if he’d hoped that her illness would put an end to her pregnancy. Tears filled her eyes as she lay back on the pillows.

She must have slept because when she awoke, Takis was sitting on a chair beside the bed. Her heart flipped as she studied him. He was as gorgeous as ever, but there were grooves on either side of his mouth that had not been there a week ago.

‘How are you feeling?’ he asked. Nothing in his voice or shuttered expression gave a clue to his thoughts.

‘Better,’ Lissa told him. ‘You don’t need to be here. I’m sure you must want to go back to Greece to run your business.’ She bit her lip when his heavy brows drew together.

‘I have stated that you and the child you are carrying are my responsibility.’ He ran a hand through his hair. ‘Theos! It is my fault that you nearly died,’ he said harshly. Lissa had never seen him so unrestrained.

‘How do you work that out?’

‘Your thyroid condition means that pregnancy is a higher risk for you.

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