Summer Island Hope by Ciara Knight

Author:Ciara Knight [Knight, Ciara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781953396273
Publisher: Defy the Dark Publishing LLC

Chapter Sixteen

Kat eyed the tourist signs leading toward the large Mickey Mouse, but they hung a right on I-4 instead of a left. If only they were headed for happy times, not the storm that waited like the summer thunderboomer clouds rolling into shore. One glance at Wes, his hands gripped tight at the ten and two positions, and she knew he raged a war inside himself. The man didn’t want a baby, but he loved her, so he would stay. But where did that leave her and the child?

She couldn’t raise a child with a parent who didn’t want him or her. She’d already lived that herself and wouldn’t wish that upon anyone. No. Would he come around, or would she have to be the one to break things off in the end?

After all those years of avoiding marriage and commitment, determined never to become her parents, she now wanted to walk down the aisle with Wes more than anything. Pregnancy hormones? A mother’s desire to give her baby a father? She didn’t know, but she’d put that aside for another day.

For today, she needed him to help her get through this appointment. All her worry would be for nothing if the baby didn’t make it. The thought sucker-punched her as if her unborn child let her know he or she would put up a good fight. She rubbed her belly to soothe the little dot inside her.

Wes abandoned his assault on the steering wheel and covered her hand. “You okay over there?”

“Yes, I’m fine.” Kat offered a smile in hopes she’d covered the terror clawing its way to the surface. Their exit came into view, causing her pulse to quicken.

Once parked in the dim and dingy garage, he shut off the car and faced her. “I’m here with you. Let me shoulder the burden. Your job is to remain calm and know you’re not alone, okay?”

She nodded, but she saw the worry etched into the distinguished lines around his eyes. “We’ll go and listen to what the doctor has to say, and then we’ll go from there.”

Her words seemed to placate him, but when he opened her car door and took her hand, he didn’t let go until they were seated in the doctor’s office, waiting to speak to the person who would change their lives forever.

A man with dark, thinning hair and tired eyes entered and sat across from them behind a large wooden desk. He opened an old-fashioned folder and scanned over some notes. “Mr. and Mrs. Stein, we need to run a battery of tests to determine the health of your fetus. Due to the high-risk nature of your pregnancy, we’ll need to do an amniocentesis to determine if the child has any chromosomal abnormalities, neural tube defects, or genetic disorders prior to determining whether or not to continue with the pregnancy.”

Wes pulled at the unbuttoned collar around his neck. “Amnio? I’ve read up on that. Isn’t there a risk to mother and baby?”

“There’s a small increased risk of miscarriage with the procedure.

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