Secret Daddies: A Contemporary Romance Box Set by Black Natasha L

Author:Black, Natasha L.
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2020-02-17T16:00:00+00:00

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Simon

I held Ari in the waiting room as we all sat there. Me, her, my father, and her father. My father and I had just finished eating lunch before I got that phone call. At first, I almost didn’t pick up. I didn’t recognize the number, so why would I have? But I was so fucking glad I did.

And now, we waited.

Ari shook in my arms. I held her closely, pressing soft kisses against the top of her head. And while I thought those kisses might have earned me glares from her father, he didn’t pay me any mind. He sat on the other side of his daughter and held her hand, while my own father patted my knee. All three of us, there to support Ari.

All four of us, scared for our Macy.

“Anyone want some coffee?” Dad asked.

“Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. You two eaten at all?” her father asked.

“I uh, Dad and I had lunch before all this happened,” I said.

“What about you, honey?” he asked Ari.

But she started blankly at the floor, neither answering his question, nor anyone else’s.

“Come on, Matthew. Let’s go get coffee and snacks. They can pick at what they want and don’t want,” Dad said.

“Sounds good. Right behind you,” her father said.

I watched the two of them walk off, talking to one another as they made their way for the elevator. In all my years, I never thought I’d see something like that. Then again, this was bigger than any pettiness or past we had going on between all of us. Right now, Macy’s life was in danger. And we didn’t have a clue as to why.

“What if she—?”

I cut her off. “Don’t even think it.”

Ari sniffled. “What other signs was I missing?”

“Sometimes, you can’t see things like this coming.”

“Macy’s never been seriously sick, Simon. No flu or upper-respiratory issues. She’s never even battled allergies.”

“Then, maybe she’s come into contact with something that sent her immune system into overdrive or something.”

“My baby girl,” she whispered.

Our dads came back with fresh coffee and an array of snacks—fruit and pastries and half sandwiches. I tried to get Ari to eat something. Anything. But all she did was mindlessly sip coffee.

“Macy Procter?”

Ari leaped out of her chair. “That’s my daughter.”

Our fathers stood beside us as the doctor came over.

“Where is she? Is she in a room? Can I go see her?” Ari asked.

The doctor nodded. “Once we get her checked in, yes. We wanted to run the tests immediately because she’s so young and doesn’t have a history of this kind of thing. But nothing is showing up on any immediate tests.”

I blinked. “What does that mean?”

The doctor cleared his throat. “Well, there’s no tumor. No blood clot. She doesn’t have any infections, and there’s nothing abnormal in her blood.”

“So, is this just a one-off thing?” she asked.

“Have you noticed anything off about her behavior lately, Miss Procter?”

She shook her head slowly. “I mean, what do you mean by ‘off’?”

“Anything out of the ordinary?

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