Gaining Gibbs (Marco's MMA Boys #4) (7 page)

CHAPTER 13

GIBBS

I saw Gia in the kitchen talking to Jade and there is no damn telling what she said. If Jade’s reaction when I got to her car was any indicator, it pissed her off.

Gia clutching my arm right now is pissing me off. I tug my arm away. She crosses her arms and walks off, pouting like a damn child. She knows how I feel about her. I’ve made it clear to everyone that she’s living in my house so that I can help with her pregnancy and the baby. I have no romantic interest in her. I should have went by Huck’s old adage and double bagged it. I might not be in this mess right now. Not that I don’t want to care for my child, but I really wish it was with anyone but her. Her brothers all took the news a lot better than I thought they would. Mox was kinda pissed for a few days, but Huck talked to him. Sly was just pissed he was left in the dark about what was going on and that apparently everyone else knew.

Huck steps up to me as we clean up from the non-party. “So has she talked to you yet?”

I look up. “Who?”

“Jade.”

I shrug. “No, I’ve tried. I even offered to drive her and Eve to the hospital, but she just blew me off.”

“When is Gia’s first appointment?”

I shrug. “She keeps moving it because of her school schedule. I’m hoping soon. I’d like to find out exactly how far along she is and make sure everything is okay.”

Huck shakes his head like there is something on his mind but doesn’t want to say.

“What’s on your mind, Huck?”

He looks over at Gia. “Nothing, man. Just wish this wasn’t all going down like this. You guys go ahead and go. I’ve got this.”

“You sure?”

He waves me off. “Yeah, man.”

Once we’re in my truck, she’s messing around on her phone. “When is your appointment?”

She shrugs. “I don’t know. I’ll have to look. I’ve had to reschedule it so much I’ve lost track.” She cuts her eyes at me. “Why?”

I glance at her like she’s stupid. Which she is. “Um, because I want to go.”

“I don’t need you to go with me. I’m an adult, I can go to the doctor by myself,” she says defensively.

“Well, most of the time when someone is having your kid, you get to go to the doctor with them.”

She spins toward me. “Well, you’ve made it perfectly clear that we aren’t most people having a baby.”

“No, we’re not, but it’s my right to be there and check on my kid.”

“Fine. Whatever.” She turns and stares out the window of the truck.

The closer we get to home, I start to feel bad. I know I’m just as much to blame in this situation as she is. I’m taking it all out on her and I shouldn’t. Once we get out at my house, I stop her. “Look, I’m sorry. I just want to be a part of all of it.”

She shrugs. “Yeah, I get it.”

I shake my head, not even caring that I haven’t eaten tonight. I’m just going to bed.

I reach down, feeling Jade’s thick, pouty lips around my cock. “Mmm. Shit, Firecracker. That’s soo good.”

I know if Jade’s here, I’m dreaming. I feel her climbing up my body, but suddenly something doesn’t feel familiar.

My eyes snap open to see Gia trying to straddle my cock. “What the fuck are you doing?”

She sighs. “I just thought…maybe we could…”

“No. Not happening.” I slide her off of my lap and switch the lamp on so I can see her face.

“What’s the big deal? It’s not like I can get pregnant again.”

“The big deal is I don’t want to.”

She points to my dick that’s standing at attention. “That says different.”

“Yeah, well, that was thanks to your mouth. I was thinking of someone else. I’m not going to let you get this confused as to what our relationship is. I’m here for my kid. I promised your brothers that I wouldn’t let this confuse you. We aren’t in a relationship, I made that clear when I agreed to let you move in here.”

She jumps up off the bed. “Fuck you, Gibbs, and fuck my brothers. You’re all fucking assholes and I hate every god damn one of you.” I hear her slamming her door as she gets down the hallway to her room.

Well, all of that killed the erection I had going. Thank God, if I keep jacking off, I swear my dick is going to have calluses. I get up and close my bedroom door and lock it. It’s sad when I have to lock my damn room in my house, just so I can get some fucking sleep.

Lying there, I think about how I should’ve never started anything with her. It all seemed so simple to start with. We were looking for the same thing, someone to kill time with.

It’s Jade I want to be with, it’s her I care about and want to have a future with. I wish it was her I was having a kid with.

CHAPTER 14

JADE

“It’s the beautiful Jade Chambers. Would you like some coffee this morning?”

I look up to see Dr. Gavin Jennings. He’s managed to figure out my schedule in the past two weeks and bring me coffee almost every morning I work. Not in a stalker kind of way, but a sweet way.

“Yes. Thank you.” I place my hand on the counter. “You know, you are quickly becoming one of my favorite people.”

He laughs. “Well that’s good to know. It makes this next question I have to ask a lot easier to ask.”

“Okay, you’re worrying me now,” I say with a small laugh, taking a sip of my coffee.

“Well, we have the hospital gala this Friday night. Would you do me the honor of being my date?”

I smile. I’m about to turn him down when I see Lucille out of the corner of my eye nodding. “Um. Sure. As long as we won’t get in trouble or anything.”

He laughs. “No, we won’t get into trouble.”

I shake my head. “Okay. Um. What should I wear?”

“It’s just cocktail attire,” he says casually.

I nod, smiling. “Well, it’s the least I can do since you’ve done so great providing me with coffee. Good coffee at that, not even the crap they serve in the break room.”

“You only deserve the best.”

I shake my head. “Sorry, I have to get into the back and start getting everyone’s meds ready.”

He nods. “Oh, by the way, how is your sister?”

“She’s doing a lot better. Sly is watching her like a hawk.” I laugh.

He nods. “I can totally see that.” He waves as he starts to walk away. “You have a good day.” He points to Lucille. “You behave yourself, Lucille.”

She waves him off.

She winks at me. “So you’re talking to our own little version of Dr. McDreamy.”

I laugh. “You’re crazy, Lucille. He is a nice guy. We met the night Kara came in.”

She shakes her head. “Honey, he’s more than nice. I’m still upset things didn’t work out for you and the fighter. He seems sad and miserable now.” She takes a drink from her bottle of water. “Boy don’t ever hardly crack a smile now, much less joke with any of us during our classes at the gym.”

I shrug. “It is what it is. Nothing I can do about it now,” I finish as I open the door to the pharmacy.

After a long day of medicating people, I call my sister. “Hey, little sister. To what do I owe the pleasure of your phone call?”

I laugh. “You know, you certainly are more chipper now that your sugar isn’t out of control.”

“Har har har. You’re almost as funny as Sly.”

“Anyway, I was wondering if you’re busy this afternoon. I need to pick up a cocktail dress for the hospital gala that’s this Friday night.”

“Oooh, that sounds like fun. Do you care if the girls come with? We’re supposed to be having dinner this afternoon so you could join us.”

Fuck, is Gia going to be there?

“Don’t worry, Gia isn’t going to be there. It’ll just be me, Sloan, Chels and Liz.”

“Oh um, okay. I’ll text you when I get off.”

“So who’s your date for this gala?”

“Dr. Jennings asked me this morning,” I say with a smile. She knows he’s been bringing me coffee since she was admitted that night. It’s just been innocent flirting until this.

“Oooh. That’s great. I’m excited.” Jeez, her pregnancy hormones must be kicking in again because she sounds like a damn teenager on the phone.

“Okay well, I’ll text you,” I say again, trying to convey the message that I need to hang up.

“Okay,” she says cheerfully. “I’ll call the girls.”

“Okay.” I laugh as I hang up.

~*~*~

“I think you’ll look awesome in that damn green,” Chelsea says.

“I like the black, but I tend to lean toward dark colors,” Sloan says nonchalantly.

Liz steps up to me. “No, this fucking blue is going to be awesome.”

I take the dresses in my hand to the dressing room. A black, a dark green, a turquoise and a deep cobalt blue. Once inside, I start slipping on the first dress. Damn, my boobs look fucking huge in this dress. My boobs aren’t small by any means, but in this dress they look ginormous.

I step out in the green. “Here’s the green. I don’t like how my boobs look like a buffet in this one.”

They laugh at my candidness.

I step back in the dressing room and slide into the black halter neck dress. I can’t manage the zipper. “Kara, can you come zip me up?”

She slips in the curtain. “Damn, Jadie boo. It’s like your tits have exploded.” Once she gets it zipped, we both laugh. I look like I’m stuffed in a sausage casing.

An hour later, I’ve picked the cobalt blue dress that Liz liked. It’s simple yet classy, and the neckline doesn’t make me feel like a two dollar hooker with these damn boobs. I’ve gotten lazy since I finished with classes. I need to slack off on the coffee and junk food.

~*~*~

Gavin is supposed to be here in like thirty minutes. I’m digging through my bathroom closet for my silver earrings when I knock the box of tampons off the shelf.

Reaching down to gather them up, I see that I only have five left. I need to put them on my list for the store. Then it hits me. I haven’t had a period since a month or so before I got out of school. Shit. This is not good. Running to my room, I grab my calendar. I went out with Clay a little over five weeks ago.

But then I was super stressed and sick over my state board. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve skipped a period because my body was so fucking stressed or even because of the pills I take. I’ve been cramping this week and my lower back has been killing me so that’s probably what it is. I’m probably about to start.

Pushing that to the back of my mind, I find the earrings I was in search of. I hear my doorbell chime.

Stepping to the door, I open it, smiling at Gavin. He grins. “Wow, you look gorgeous.”

I smile. “Thanks.”

Once we are at the gala, he introduces me to several of the other doctors in his practice and from the hospital.

Dr. Coleman shakes my hand. “Are you managing to help keep that sister of yours straight?”

I shake my head. “I’m not sure anyone can do that job.” I laugh. “But I know that Sly doesn’t let her out of his sight very much now.”

He laughs. “Oh yes. He told me he’d be at every appointment from now on. She wouldn’t have the opportunity to try and not worry him. Which I got her butt good, too. I had told her how serious I was worried about her sugar because of your family history. So she got some good lectures.”

I hug him. “Thank you for caring so much about her,” I say with tears in my eyes.

He hugs me hard. “She’s a wonderful girl. I wanted this pregnancy to go smoothly for her after last time. I’ll be honest, I don’t think in my twenty years of delivering babies that I’ve ever been so scared for a baby and a patient as I was the night she was attacked. God had his hands on mine guiding me that night.”

I nod, thinking about rushing here to be with her. Clay driving through the night even though he was exhausted from his fight.

I go to take a sip from my champagne and the smell turns my stomach.

I step to the bar. “I’ll have a water, please.”

Gavin steps beside me. “Are you all right? You look a little flush.”

“Yeah, I’ve just been really tired. You know, getting moved into my new place and the new jobs. It’s crazy, I go through days where I’m on a junk food binge, then days I feel like if I look at food, I’ll puke.”

He studies me for a minute. “Jade, I’m going to ask you a question and I don’t want to be forward or insult you, but I feel like I need to ask.”

I nod briefly as he pulls me to the side.

“Is there any way that you might be pregnant?” He laughs. “I know this isn’t regular first date talk, but I was just wondering. The symptoms you’re talking about and I hate to say it this way, but um, I’ve noticed your breasts have um…” He makes the motion of them getting bigger.

I don’t know where they come from but tears poor out of my eyes and the fears I’d pushed aside earlier bubble up.

He hugs me and takes my hand. “Come on, we’ll go over to the doctor’s building to my office and do some bloodwork. Your hormones could be out of balance for many reasons, the stress could be a lot of it. Then we can talk in private.”

I just nod and follow behind him. In my gut I know what the answer is. I’ve been there before.

An hour and several Kleenex later, Gavin is still smiling at me. I was wrong and I’m happy, but worried at the same time. “Hey, you’re going to be okay. You’ve got a wonderful OBGYN right here.”

I laugh and snort. “Well, call me crazy but my idea for you in between my legs wasn’t for an exam.” Then I start to get weepy again. “Plus, I mean how do you know I’m going to be okay? What if-?” I can’t even finish it.

He pats my hand. “We will cross that bridge when we get there. So tell me about the miscarriage you mentioned,” he says, elbows resting on his desk. “Also, will you sign this so I can get those records from UAB?” He holds up a piece of paper to me.

I nod. “Sure.” I reach over and sign the paper. “Thanks for taking all this time with me. I was nineteen. I was on birth control, but had just recently changed. My boyfriend at the time failed to tell me that the condom we were using broke. I was about seven or eight weeks along. I started cramping really badly, then I started spotting. I took myself to the hospital on campus. I found out that I was having a miscarriage.”

He’s scribbling notes on the paper. “Did the doctor perform a D&C?”

I shake my head. “No, I saw the resident on duty. He said that it wouldn’t be necessary, that my body would naturally take care of it.” I start wiping tears again.

“Hey, it’s fine. At least we know you aren’t pregnant.”

“Yeah, but now I have an entire other realm of possibilities to worry about.” I motion into the air, at my wit’s end.

“Were you ever checked out and given pills before you went to the clinic there?” he asks, still writing.

“Um, yes. I started seeing a gynecologist when I was seventeen. I had really bad periods and they gave me birth control. The birth control slowed them down a great deal. Like they became almost non-existent.” I shrug.

He nods. “Okay, well let’s do some more lab work and schedule an ultrasound to look at some things next week. I really want to help you get to the bottom of this.”

“I know this was a great first date, huh? The chick you’re out with has to have some random shit going on with her girl parts, so you have to check them out instead of going to the gala.” I laugh with a snort again. I can’t help but do that when I’m upset and nervous.

He nods, shrugging, “Well, it’s different, but not the weirdest date I’ve been on.”

I laugh. “Don’t lie.”

He shakes his head, laughing. “No way. I went on a date with a girl one time who carried her cat everywhere in her purse.” I snort and shake my head as he continues. “I had to buy the cat dinner, too. At a damn five star restaurant.”

“Oh god. You have to be making that up.”

He shakes his head. “Nope, then there was the girl who found out my job and asked me could I sew her hymen back.”

“Oh my god, that’s fucking disgusting.”

“Yeah, needless to say, neither of those warranted a second date.”

“Don’t worry, I’m sure this one also fits that category.”

He looks at me crazy. “Why? Because you’re going through some gynecological issues? No, that’s not a reason.”

I start crying again. “Thank you, Gavin.”

“Hey, remember. Women are my business.”

I bark out a laugh with a snort from the tears. “That was really corny.” He really is funny.

“I’m here all night, folks.” He laughs, standing up and bowing at an imaginary audience.