Perfect Risk (Mason Creek #1) - C.A. Harms Page 0,72

I didn’t want her in pain, given her whatever she needed to feel nothing. I wished I could take her place and be the one in here with bandages and swelling.

“Yes, and its completely safe for the baby too.” The room grew completely silent, you could’ve heard a pin drop.

“Baby?” It was Anna who finally spoke and I noticed then that Burt was staring directly at me and no longer the doctor. “What baby?”

“Wyatt?” It was a plea of clarification that I couldn’t offer.

“Did no one know that Ms. Michaels is pregnant?”

All I could hear was the swooshing sound in my ears as the blood rushed through me. My ears felt hot, my vision blurred and I closed my eyes to gain some sort of control.

“Wyatt?” I opened them once more and found Burt still staring at me as he waited for me to explain.

“I didn’t know,” I confessed. “I don’t think she did either.”

“It is early so that’s understandable.”

“How early?” I looked away from Burt and watched the doctor looking over something on his tablet once more.

“By the sonogram I’d say maybe eight to ten weeks, give or take.”

I swiveled around in my chair, my focus landing on Sadie and then to her stomach, hidden beneath the blanket. She was pregnant, with our child, and I could have lost them both. I took in a slow shuddering breath. Conversation continued around me, but I zoned out.

I was gonna be a father.

Hours passed, most slipping away with the promise of returning tomorrow. My brother took my mother home, after they both said goodbye. My mother holding my face in her hands and without saying a word, she expressed so very much.

Anna didn’t want to leave, but Beau convinced her and after they both told me congratulations they walked out. Anna stopped in the doorway, looking back toward the bed and I could see the hesitation in her eyes. “I’ll call you if she wakes up, promise.” With that she nodded her head and then she was gone.

I’d already called Grady and he’d agreed to go to my place and get Gus, his little girl squealing in the background demanding he would sleep with her in her bed. I knew he’d be taken care of.

Burt and Cybill where the last to go, as he wheeled his wife out the door, he paused and held my stare. “You take care of my daughter, and my grandchild.”

I nodded, to spent to say anything. I was still reeling with the news that Sadie was carrying my child.

Sometime through the night Sadie woke and I hit the button for the nurse.

They looked her over, offered her something for the pain and she shook her head saying she was okay.

After the woman excused herself I slid in close once again and linked my fingers through hers. Bringing our joined hands to my lips I kissed her fingers and held them against my lips still saying nothing.

“You were right,” her voice was barely above a whisper but in the quietness of the room I heard her clearly. “I need a new car, mine is shit in snow.”

I chuckled, not feeling the least bit in the mood for it, but honestly this woman was amazing. After what she’d gone through and that is the first thing she said when waking up after hours of induced sleep.

“Babe, your car looks like its went three rounds in the demolition derby. It’s done.” She wrinkled her nose and I stood, leaning over her body to press a soft kiss to her lips. “And we’re buying you a tank to drive.”

She smiled against my lips but I wasn’t joking. I would never again go through what I went through during that call and after. It was without a doubt one of the scariest moments of my life and now it wouldn’t be just Sadie in the car.

My entire life would be inside whatever vehicle she drove so if I had it my way she be in the biggest, sturdiest fucking automobile out there. Even then I knew I’d be pacing the floors until they were home with me.

“On second thought, I think I’ll just drive you around myself.”

Lifting her good hand, she placed her palm to my cheek and kissed me once more.

“I love you.” That word wasn’t strong enough. What I felt for her was so much deeper than love.

Chapter Forty

Sadie

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I laid in the tub with my palm rested on my bare stomach. Lost in thought, feeling amazed by