Doctor Dilemma : A Grumpy Next Door Neighbor Romance (Catch-22) by Madison Bailey

Author:Madison Bailey [Bailey, Madison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

When Leo came home, I was cuddling with Bagel as usual. She’d become pretty quickly acclimated to the schedule we were on. It was now at the point where she didn’t need a person to be near her every second of the day, and we could leave her for an hour or two.

I jolted up and asked, “Did you get the results?”

“I told them to rush them and try and get them in before the end of the day,” he told me. “I last checked before leaving the office but let me check the portal and see if anything’s changed.”

He pressed a few buttons on his phone.

“How was your day?” I asked, trying to fill the empty silence with anything other than discomfort.

“Fine,” he said.

The page loaded on his phone and he pressed a few buttons. I couldn’t stand still, and I was dancing in place like a toddler who had to pee.

“Okay,” he said, with a slight smile on his face.

“Is that a good smile, or did someone just text you a meme?”

He looked at me and I could tell it from his eyes. But it didn’t become real until he actually uttered the words aloud.

“The implantation took,” he said.

I jumped forward and hugged him so hard that Bagel leapt up, too, wanting to join in on the celebration.

“But!” he interjected.

“But?”

“But this is still just the first step of a long journey,” he said. “This isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon and, not to scare you, but there are still a million and one things that could go wrong.”

“Like what?”

He shook his head. “Like it doesn’t matter what, but I, or whoever your doctor is, will keep you updated at every stage. The important thing is to not get ahead of ourselves.”

“Is it a boy or a girl?” The words had gone in one ear and out the other as my mind started bouncing around with every possible question I could have.

“We don’t know yet,” he said. “It’s possible to test for gender when we start doing the genetic tests, but it’s better to just wait for the ultrasound.”

“But I want to know now!”

Maybe the phlebotomist was right about needing to learn to exercise patience.

“Mila,” Leo said. His face was stern and grumpy. He was not matching my good mood, and I had to remind myself that he wasn’t the one having a baby. Still, there were no congratulations, just a matter of fact clinical description of what had happened. The procedure was a success. He might as well have been talking about replacing the rotors in an old car.

“Your journey as a mother begins today,” he said, “and if you’re too fixated on the future, you’ll miss parts of the process. Pregnancy is part of that journey. Try to appreciate that instead of looking forward to what’s going to happen when the baby comes out of you. Trust me, you’ll have plenty to keep you busy.”

“Okay,” I said.

“Also,” he said, “I wouldn’t announce anything just yet.”

That was enough to calm me down for a second.

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