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Authors: Normandie Alleman
Tested by Her Web Master (Web Master #2) (21 page)
“
That won’t be necessary.”
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All right, hon, let me get your discharge paperwork together. Congratulations.” She patted me on the arm and left me all alone in the room.
Pregnant.
With Quentin’s baby.
Quentin, who had a child once before who was brutally taken from him.
Quentin, who I loved with all my heart, but who I would never again be able to trust.
Tentatively, I pressed my hand to my abdomen. I was really going to have a baby? There had been a time in my life when I’d wanted a child, but I’d given up on that dream long ago.
Before I had a chance to think about it much further, the door opened and Quentin walked through it. “Everything okay?”
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Yes. They think it was just stress.” As I uttered the lie I felt a certain satisfaction in my words. Oh, he was responsible for my condition all right, but I’d rather he believe he’d caused me distress with his deceptive ways.
No, I’d have to sort out what to do about the real truth I was hiding. But there was no way I was telling him now.
The nurse brought in my paperwork, and I was free to go. I wished I could just sleep in the hospital. I was way too tired for a long bunch of flights, but I was too stubborn to go back to Quentin’s house with him. I was supposed to go back the next day anyway. I might as well make my escape now. After all, I had a lot to process after the past twenty-four hours.
The drive from the hospital to the airport took a half hour, but when we got close, Quentin pulled into the parking lot of a hotel near the airport. Sick of him not following my simple directions, I snapped, “What are you doing? You’re supposed to be taking me to the airport.”
“
I’ve checked the schedule. There are no other flights tonight that will get you back to Ft. Worth any quicker than the ones you can take tomorrow. Unless you want to change planes three times and wind up there at four in the morning. I’ve booked you a room here. You can take the hotel’s shuttle over to the airport in the morning. They have room service. You’ll be perfectly comfortable, and you can be rid of me.”
That last part cut like a knife. It was what I wanted, but it hurt like hell.
“
Unless you’d like me to stay.”
I froze. I shook my head. I needed to think. Away from his dominating manner, his sexy body, and his powerful influence.
“
Because I am worried about you, you know. You did just faint. Are you sure the doctors don’t know what’s wrong?”
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It’s just stress. So rest is probably what I need.”
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You’re welcome to come home with me tonight. I’ll take care of you, and I can bring you to the airport tomorrow.”
If I didn’t make it crystal clear to him that I needed him to go, it would only be harder to leave, so I flipped a switch and turned my anger loose on him. “Do you even know the crap you put me through, how hard it was for me to come to terms with the idea of you ‘sharing’ me? And then it was all bullshit. You have a lot of nerve acting like my savior, like you can take care of me. You’re too busy hurting me, humiliating me, deceiving me. What I need is for you to get out of my life.”
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I deserve that,” he said with an infuriating calmness.
I opened the door to the car and got out. Leaning back in, I said, “Let me tell you something Quentin Andrews—you are not God. You cannot control people’s lives like that. You are not cursed. You are just a man who has had bad things happen to him, who sometimes makes really bad decisions. Really bad decisions.”
Without a word he got out of the car, popped open the trunk and before he could help me with it, I pulled my suitcase out of the back. Tears blinded my eyes and I refused to look back, but as I walked away I heard him say, “I’m sorry. Sophie. So sorry.”
That night I slept the sleep of the dead, and I didn’t want to get up with my alarm or my wake-up call from the front desk.
I showered, dressed hurriedly, and made it to the airport shuttle with barely a minute to spare. Even though I was only at the airport it felt strange to be in Seattle without Quentin. I missed him, and my body ached to have his arms around me. I felt like I had a low-grade fever, but I chalked that up to the early pregnancy rather than being heartsick.
Boarding my flight, I was racked with nerves. Would this be the last time I’d ever be in Seattle? Grief over my relationship with Quentin began to settle over me, and once I was seated I closed my eyes.
My mind kept going back over conversations and sessions I’d had with BA, processing what it meant that those interactions were really with Quentin. It was disturbing, but somewhat eye opening. BA had encouraged me to be patient with Quentin, which now was clearly self-serving, but it also told me that Quentin knew about my concerns and doubts and rather than run from me, his approach was to hang in there and try to move things forward between us.
Oh well. It didn’t matter now.
It was time for me to forget about Quentin and focus on my baby.
There was only one problem—it was his baby too.
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