Home Run by Bernadette Marie

Author:Bernadette Marie [Marie, Bernadette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781631120077
Publisher: 5 Prince Publishing
Published: 2014-02-25T07:00:00+00:00

Luckily, Victoria had been reprieved of having to eat the nuggets when Scott showed up with Chinese food.

“You’re a saint,” she said as she put a piece of pork in her mouth.

“You were looking too skinny. You need substance.”

She laughed, but she knew she’d lost some weight since she couldn’t seem to eat much. Perhaps she had PMS, though she usually gained five pounds and wasn’t so sick.

Victoria sipped her water from the bottle which Scott had brought with the dinner. In her head she was making a mental calculation and working on a mental calendar. When was her last period? They’d been wonky since the accident with all the medications and surgeries, but she couldn’t even remember the last time she’d had one.

A wave of nausea moved through her body. She stood and ran to the bathroom up the stairs in her bedroom. Quickly she turned on the sink, noticing that the handle was leaking a bit, but that was a problem for another day.

Her face was perspiring, her stomach lurched, and her brain was fully engaged in a conversation she’d blown off from earlier in the day. You act like I did when I was pregnant with the kids.

No. No. No.

She did more calculations in her head as her body temperature cooled as she pressed water to her face from her fingertips.

It had been three weeks since Ed and Darcy’s wedding. Three weeks since…

Now her stomach moved and she lifted the toilet lid and let go of all the dinner she’d just eaten.

“Victoria, are you okay?”

She could hear Scott call to her, but couldn’t call back as another wave took over.

When she looked up he was standing in the doorway. Quickly he grabbed for the towel on the rod and wet it under the running water.

He handed it to her and then took her hair and held it back for her.

“Oh, Scott. Go. You don’t want to see me like this.”

“Honey, this is fine. You’re sick. You need some help.”

Why couldn’t she just fall head over heels in love with this man? He was so perfect in every way.

When she felt her stomach settle she reached up and flushed the toilet and with Scott’s help got to her feet.

“C’mon. Let’s get you into bed.”

She shook her head. “The kids.”

“I’ll get them put to bed. I’ll get dinner cleaned up too. Then,” he brushed a strand of hair from her face, “I’ll make myself a bed on the couch. I’ll only be a few feet away if you need me.”

There was a protest on her tongue, but she couldn’t manage it. Every time she’d had surgery, Sonia had stayed at the house. This was the first time she was really sick and she needed help.

“Thank you,” she whispered.

Quickly, exhaustion took over her body. At some point she knew she’d heard the kids in the hallway with Scott on their way to bed, but she slept through the night.

She’d nearly forgotten he was there until the next morning when she walked downstairs to make her coffee.

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