The Deal With Triplets by Rayner Holly

Author:Rayner, Holly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Zoe

If someone had told me a month or two ago that I’d be praying every day for some sort of nausea or cramping, I would have laughed in their face. This was my life now, though, and I was disappointed that I hadn’t been more tired than usual or noticed any unusual pains or aches. There was no way I was pregnant. I should’ve known better than to hope it would work on our first try.

Of course, every woman has her own journey to pregnancy. While Ellie and her husband had tried for a year before conceiving, my cousin Lauren had decided she wanted to start a family last January and had her son, Brandon, by Christmastime. I supposed I thought my situation was different somehow because this wasn’t some romantic conception. This wasn’t the start of a typical family. This was business. This was the sensible route. But it had been an entire month, so, surely, I would have seen some sort of sign of pregnancy by this point. I’d had no such luck.

On the phone last week, Lucas and I had agreed that, due to our busy schedules, I’d delay my trip to Belgium to a later time, and we’d go the route of artificial insemination this month. I couldn’t say I was heartbroken at the idea. Sure, I was bummed that I didn’t know when I’d see Lucas again, but I was starting to notice some doubts lingering in the back of my mind at this idea.

Thinking about it from an unbiased standpoint, it was clear this was crazy: a CEO and his VP of Marketing having a baby together because they each want a child and see no clear relationship with anyone else in the near future. I wasn’t sure what was more bizarre—us sleeping together, or knowing that there was a tube, or jar, or some sort of container with a sample of his “genetic material” waiting for me at the fertility clinic.

It was too late to back out now, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to, anyway. Every time I thought about the fact that I could be a mother just months from now, I lit up, and I got butterflies in my stomach. I was starting to realize that there was more to life than my job, and maybe this was meant to be my next adventure. Besides, how awesome would it be to get to raise my child alongside Ellie raising her little girl?

Lucas had found the best fertility clinic in Chicago for me to go to, and, though it was actually a half hour drive from the city, I couldn’t help but smile when I thought about how much effort he’d put into finding the perfect place to potentially start our family—or whatever it was.

I drove the congested city streets, unfazed by the traffic, too consumed by my thoughts of Lucas. I wondered if I had real, romantic feelings for him. It was hard to tell. I’d been thinking about it since we’d made the agreement a month ago, and he’d been on my mind almost every day since.

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