Billionaire A BWWM Pregnancy Romance 8: My Billionaire Baby Wish (4 page)

Phil
shook his head.

“
Give
us a good deal or give you the deal?” he asked.

“
What
is that supposed to mean?” she asked.

Julie
knew exactly what he meant and where this was going.

“
That
guy was flirting with you. Do you think he offered us a stay at a
five star hotel at a discount?” Phil asked. Julie looked at
Allan. She opened her mouth to talk but Allan shook his head, a sure
sign that she shouldn’t get involved. She took a long deep
breath and faced forward. She would have given anything to get out of
this moment in time. Rue and Phil’s fights always ended up
bad…really bad.

“
So
what if he was? Don’t you trust me enough to make my own
decisions or do you think that I might just jump into bed with the
next guy who shows me a kind hand?” Rue asked.

“
You
always do this, Rue. What the fuck!” Phil yelled.

“
Hey!”
Julie said but Allan put a hand on hers and she turned around,
focusing her attention on the road ahead. Allan looked at her and
smiled before he turned on the radio and turned it up. But even then,
Julie could still hear Rue’s high pitched voice and Phil’s
violent voice.

“
Come
on, Rue. You are always leading guys on so that you can have your
way,” Phil said.

Rue
flipped her hair around and laughed cynically.

“
Fuck
you Phil!” she yelled.

“
Fuck
me? Fuck you bitch!” Phil said.

“
Alright
guys, you need to tone it down a little,” Allan said as he
looked at the two through the rear view mirror.

“
It
is just…you know what, Allan. Stop the car. I don’t need
this fucking trip,” Rue said.

“
Oh
please. Now she gets all dramatic,” Phil said.

By
this time, the atmosphere in the car was getting out of control.
Julie could not hear herself think and Allan found himself
concentrating more on Rue and Phil than the road. Everything was
moving too fast for everyone in the car and the next thing they knew
was the loud crash as they collided head on with an oncoming utility
truck.

Allan
groaned and his eyes fluttered open. He could see Julie on the hood
of the car. There was broken glass and blood everywhere. He opened
his mouth to call her but it seemed almost impossible to get any
sound out of his throat. He could hear someone talking on the
phone…calling the emergency services or something…but
he could also feel himself drifting off.

“
Julie…”
he groaned before he drifted off.

*****

When
Julie came to, everything around her was moving fast. A little too
fast.

“
Crash
victim, eighteen years old. Female. Sharp forced trauma to the
abdomen and upper torso. Possible trauma to the cranium,” the
EMT reported as he helped push the gurney down the aisle towards the
elevator. “We’ll need traction on the right leg too,”
the EMT added.

“
Prep
an OR and someone put pressure on that abdominal wound. Get me four
pints of O neg,” the ER trauma surgeon yelled as she held her
stethoscope to Julie’s wrist. “Pulse is erratic,”
she said again as she cut the shirt Julie had on open.

“
Where…where
am I?” Julie asked in a low voice.

“
Ma’am
you are at the hospital. Do you know your name?” the doctor
asked as she pressed some gauze on an open wound.

“
Julie…Julie
Miller,” Julie said. Her head felt so heavy and her eyes could
barely remain open as another doctor shone a light in her eyes.

“
That’s
good Julie. You are going to be okay,” the doctor said as she
motioned to one of the nurses to take over. “My name is Dr.
Castillo. You were in an accident and we are going to take care of
you.” Dr. Castillo said.

“
What
about Allan?” Julie asked. “My…my boyfriend,”
she asked as she closed her eyes again.

“
We
have him. He is being treated,” Dr. Castillo said as the
elevator doors opened. “What OR do I have?” she asked as
they pushed the gurney out.

“
OR
four,” one of the nurses said.

“
Dr.
Leslie and Dr. Keating are with me,” Dr. Castillo said. “Scrub
in guys and you, prep the patient,” she added as she began
scrubbing. They had just finished and were walking into the operating
room when one of the interns bust into the OR with her mouth covered.
“What is it, Taylor?” Dr. Castillo asked.

“
One
of the crash victims…it’s a code blue,” the intern
said. “None of us…” she started and Dr. Castillo
looked up.

“
Where
is Dr. Walsh?” Dr. Castillo asked.

“
He
is still in surgery and…” the intern started but Dr.
Castillo was way ahead of her. She looked up at one of her assisting
residents. “Leslie, get on it. Stabilize the patient and do the
repair. Keating and I will handle it here,” she said. Dr.
Leslie ran out and Dr. Castillo looked at the anesthesiologist. “All
done?” she asked.

“
Yeah.
She’s under,” he said.

“
Ten
blade,” Dr. Castillo said holding out her hand. As the young
doctor looked down at her teenage patient, she could not help but
think of the best and most efficient way to repair the damage done.
Thanks to the patient not wearing a seatbelt, she had shards of the
windshield embedded in her tummy. She did not only need to save a
life, but also ensure that her patient would have a normal life as a
woman. She needed to make sure she saved her womb too. “Suction,”
Dr. Castillo said as she managed to pull out one of the shards
causing a massive hemorrhage. “One down, fifteen to go,”
she said under her breath. “Stats,” she asked as she
began pulling out the next shard.

“
BP
stable. Prepping for cranial CT,” Dr. Keating said.

“
What
are we doing about that temple bleed?” Dr. Castillo asked
without looking up.

“
On
it,” Dr. Keating said as he pressed some gauze against the
wound.

“
And
why isn’t ortho here yet? We need traction on that leg, stat,”
Dr. Castillo said as she pulled out yet another shard.

“
Only
two ortho surgeons are on call and they are both working on the
multiple limb…” one of the nurses said before Castillo
looked up and shook her head.

“
Get
one of them in here, now,” she said in an authoritative tone.
The one nurse walked to the phone as the other one wrapped drop off
aprons on the doctors in preparation for the CT. “Alright. Last
shard out. Prep the patient for CT,” Dr. Castillo said as she
packed the last wound. The nurse put an apron on Julie before the
doctors stepped back. It took a few minutes before the doctor cursed
under her breath. “We missed one,” she said as she looked
at a piece of glass deeply embedded inside Julie. It was so near her
liver, it made the thought of removing it almost impossible. “Let’s
have a look at her cranium,” Castillo said as the nurse hovered
the machine to Julie’s head.

“
Good
news,” Dr. Keating said with a smile. “The cut on her
temple is superficial,” she added.

“
Thank
God. Patch that up. I’ll need all the help I can get with this
bugger,” she said as she looked at the work cut out ahead of
her. Five hours later, Julie was in recovery and her father was at
her side thankful that his daughter was okay. But what neither of
them knew was that the damage had been so much more than they could
have ever expected.

It
had been four months since the wedding and Julie was getting antsy
because it had also been four months since she and Steven decided to
start a family. She had never thought herself as having any problems
that would threaten her dreams of being a mother. She was standing in
the walk in closet of one of the houses she was showing that day and
she didn’t even realize that she had been in there for a long
time until her client Maura knocked on the door. She turned around
and smiled at Maura.

“
I’m
sorry…I…um…I guess I got carried away,”
she said with a smile.

Maura
nodded. “That is quite a beaut, huh?” she said. Julie
raised an eyebrow in confusion. “The Hollywood dressing
mirror,” Maura said pointing to the huge mirror in the closet.

“
Oh
yeah, that. It is…quite fabulous,” Julie said still
having a problem snapping back to reality.

Maura
looked at her and then pushed a stray strand of her hair behind her
ear.

“
That
is what you were looking at, right?” she asked.

Julie
smiled uncomfortably. “Uh sure,” she said as they walked
out of the closet and into the master bedroom.

“
Are
you sure you’re okay?” Maura asked looking at her.

“
I’m
great,” she said with a smile. “So, what do you think of
the house? You like it?” she asked in an attempt to change the
topic. “It is everything you asked for. Four bedrooms, three
bathrooms, master en suite with walk in closets, pool and front yard.
I threw in the swing as a favor,” Julie said smiling as she
looked at Maura who was busy doing something on her phone.

“
I
love it but I cannot make a decision until I get through to Paul,”
she said. She looked up at Julie apologetically. “He was
supposed to be here and I have been trying to text him for the
longest time. None of my texts are going through... I am not sure
what happened,” she added as she looked at her phone screen
again.

Julie
smiled and shrugged. “Well, men huh? Can’t live with
them, can’t live without them.”

Maura
looked at her and rolled her eyes. “Tell me about it. But you
should still be in the bed of roses that is the honeymoon phase,”
she added as she put her phone into her purse.

“
Yeah
I guess I am,” she smiled.

Maura
punched her shoulder playfully. “Good for you. How long has it
been now? A couple of months?” she asked.

Julie
shook her head no. “Actually, it’s been four,” she
said.

“
Oh
I remember those days when I was still in that phase. No kids,
perfect life, quiet house,” she said.

“
Well,
your life has not changed much. I mean, your kids are adorable and so
well behaved and…” Julie started before Maura put a hand
up stopping her mid-sentence.

“
If
you would have come to my house when the twins were two, I swear you
would have sworn off my house for the foreseeable future. Probably
until they were both old enough to be shipped off to college or
something,” Maura said. “And I wanted two kids. So
imagine my surprise when my OBGYN told me he saw two babies floating
around my tummy,” she added shaking her head. “I wanted
to die.”

Julie
laughed. “But kids are a great thing and two are always better
than one, right?”

“
Not
when you have one who is barely two years old causing havoc,”
Maura said shaking her head. “But I’ll let you have your
own experience. I mean, that was mine and as much as it was terrible,
I enjoyed every minute of it,” she added with a smile.

“
So
you would do it all over again?” Julie asked.

“
In
a heartbeat,” Maura said just as the front door open and close.

“
Well
I can hardly wait,” Julie said in a whisper.

Maura
squealed excitedly. “Wait…are you…” she
started before Julie shook her head.

“
We
are planning on it…we’ve actually been talking about it
for a while”

“
Well,
don’t let me talk you out of it. It’s the little
imperfections that make motherhood worth it,” Maura said with a
smile. Julie shrugged and then walked to one wall of the room before
she leaned against it. “Uh oh, that look is telling me that
there is something else going on in your mind,” Maura said as
she slowly walked towards Julie.

“
Just
tired I guess,” Julie said.

“
Really?
It has nothing to do with what we are talking about?” Maura
asked.

Julie
wanted to nod and scream yes. Of course what she was feeling had
everything to do with the subject at hand. She shrugged and shook her
head but the look Maura gave her made her nod. Maura seemed to have a
sixth sense about things.

“
Well….”
Julie started. “I am feeling a little pressured about
everything,” she said.

Maura
shook her head as she looked into her eyes. “Don’t you
want a baby?”

“
No,
it’s nothing like that. I am excited…over the moon about
having kids but maybe I am not doing something right,” she
said. Maura shook her head again and Julie took a long deep breath.
“I’ve been trying to have a baby for the longest time but
every test I take is always negative…” Julie said.

Maura
smiled. “Oh that. I went through that too….It’s
the worst feeling ever.”

“
You
too?” Julie asked.

“
It’s
a naturally occurring thing. Don’t force it. Just let
everything play out at its own time,” she said. Julie looked at
her and smiled. “I tried for three years before I got my first
and then after that, bang! Double blessing,” she said. Julie
smiled. “Trust me. Just take it easy. Everything will come at
its own perfect time,” Maura said as Paul, her husband walked
in.