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“Mmm,” I groaned and tried to raise my head but the movement had me dry heaving again.

“About two days. Yesterday, I started making her sip water, in hopes she’d keep it down, but it’s not working.” Mason told his uncle.

“Mason, you’re right about one thing. The only place she will be going today is the private hospital where I can give her fluids and get some tests.”

“Nooo,” I moaned.

“Bear, you’ve been sick for days. You can barely move. You need to go to hospital.” I hated the pained sound to his voice and it was why I gave in, but I knew I had no choice anyway.

“Fine,” I mumbled.

ALEXA WAS STARTING TO GET a little color back in her skin. She’d been deathly white when we’d bought her into the hospital. With it being a private hospital, the room was much nicer than the one she’d had at the public. And due to our name and Uncle Carl being with us, Alexa got her own personal nurse. She’d only left the room to get meds and have a quick talk with the other nurses.

Blood had been taken, and she now had fluids going in. They had been very careful what they give her, as the doctors my uncle had introduced hadn’t wanted to risk giving her anything that could worsen her condition. She was so dehydrated that the head of the doctors had trouble finding a vein. They ended up getting the head of blood transfusion over and she’d found one.

They’d given her Maxolon to stop her vomiting, but until the bloodwork came back they wouldn’t give her anything else. Now she wasn’t vomiting, Alexa was sleeping. I couldn’t stop pacing the room and I knew if Alexa had been awake she’d have been telling me to stop. I looked at the clock for what felt like the millionth time. Alexa had been in the hospital now for six hours and twenty-four minutes. The tests had been taken as soon as they had found a vein, five hours and forty-two minutes ago.

My hands were clammy and my heart felt like it had sunk to the bottom of my feet. I felt sick with worry. I was terrified for Alexa. I hated that she was so sick and that we didn’t know why. I should have taken her to the hospital when she fainted the other day, but Alexa hated the hospital so much and I never wanted her to be unhappy. I should have just sucked it up. Never again. I promised that I would never let her being upset with me get in the way of her wellbeing.

“It’s shouldn’t be much longer Mr. Silverman. Your fiancée’s bloodwork was sent away on priority. It will be back anytime now. Since the fluids and the Maxolon, she has picked up.”

“Sure. Not worried.” I nodded, but I could tell when she continued to calm me she didn’t believe me.

“Truthfully,” she lowered her voice down to an almost whisper. “The only reason I’m in here is because of your family and your uncle holds a lot of weight around here, so everyone wants to please him. I think your fiancée is going to be fine with how she’s responding to fluids and just Maxolon. I know they’re being cautious with her history.” She cleared her throat and looked at Alexa in the bed and this time she did whisper. “I shouldn’t say anything, but could she be pregnant?”

Blinking at her question, I stopped pacing and took a step closer to the bed where Alexa slept and studied her. Her skin wasn’t white as she looked when I’d brought her in, which did calm me a little. The sheets and a blanket covered her body, but I didn’t need to see her to remember it. An image came to me as I thought over what the nurse had asked. Alexa hadn’t ever turned me away when I’d wanted sex or even just a little oral play. I remembered her having her period a week or so before her birthday because it had been the first night since sleeping in the same bed she hadn’t wanted to snuggle. I’d had to grab her and place her over me and hold her to me before she got all embarrassed and told me why she thought she couldn’t snuggle, but since then I couldn’t remember her having one. We’d started having sex straight after her birthday and we pleasured each other at least once every other day, sometimes twice a day, but she’d never turned me away. In fact, she responded, always wanted more. It was a time when she really let go and even swore. I counted back to when we first fucked and stumbled closer to her staring in wonder. Holy shit, Alexa could be pregnant.

Darting my gaze at the nurse she nodded. “I thought that might be what this is, and I think your uncle thinks it, too, but I have a feeling because you’re family, he wants to be thorough.”

“Thanks,” I mumbled, my head swimming in images of Alexa round with my child. She was beautiful now, but in the image in my head, she glowed with beauty. I wanted it. I went to the chair beside the bed and sat in it, finally taking what felt like my first real breath in days.

It wasn’t long after when my uncle came in. I sat the chair back so I could look at him and still be close to Alexa. I could tell by the smile on his face that the nurse had been right. Uncle Carl came up beside me and patted my back. “No need to worry. Alexa, considering what she’s been through, is in good health and should be back to her old self in seven or eight months. Do you want me to wake her up and tell her or would you like the honor?”

Shaking my head, I grinned like a loon at my uncle. I’d knocked up my woman. Alexa was going to be so happy. She wanted a family straight away and we hadn’t been using protection. “I want to tell her. She wants this and will be ecstatic.”

He smiled and squeezed my shoulder. “I’ll prescribe some Maxolon for her and I’ll write on the script the best antenatal vitamins. I’ll give you a couple of OBGYN numbers, too, but I’ll highlight Dr. Kara Bay. She’s who we used.”

“Female,” I snapped. There was no fucking way any other man was looking at my woman down there.

Uncle Carl smirked at me. “I’m a Silverman just like you. I know how we feel about other men near our woman.” He cleared his throat and his smile vanished. “I know your mum organized why she wasn’t at the trial today and I made sure the doctor I got in wrote up a letter to excuse her, but . . . ” he sighed.

Alexa was pregnant. There was no fucking way she’d be testifying now. I wasn’t risking her being under that much stress when she was carrying my kid. “She’ll not testify now. Hell no,” I swore as I glared at my uncle daring him to disagree with me.

“Mmm, how am I supposed to sleep with you making so much noise?” Alexa’s husky voice had me turning back to her. “You being bossy?” She gave me a sleepy smile.

Leaning towards her, I grabbed her hand and brought it up to kiss her knuckles. “I’m not being bossy when I’m the boss.”

“Ha,” her voice was becoming clearer and she looked a lot brighter. “You’re so funny. So,” she darted her gaze up to Carl. “What’s going on with me? When can I get out of here?”

Uncle Carl grinned at Alexa. “I’ll let my nephew tell you, but you will be in for at least twenty-four hours. We won’t release you until you’ve kept food down and we are happy with your vitals.” He turned to the nurse. “You don’t need one on one, so the nurse will be coming with me. I’ll see you tomorrow evening.” He caught my gaze. “We’ll talk more about the trial when she knows?”

Alexa squeezed my hand to get my attention back on her, and for a moment she just stared at me like she was trying to figure out what she missed. Then she sighed and huffed. “Fine, okay. Thanks, nurse.” When the door shut Alexa raised her brow. “Are you going to tell me or kept me in suspense?”

I brought her hand up and kissed it. I closed my eyes and savored her skin against my lips and the knowledge that she was pregnant and didn’t have some serious illness. I opened my eyes and stared into her big bright green ones. “You’re amazing, you know that right?”

“Oh shit, I’m dying?” The curl of her lips into the cheeky smirk, had me unable to resist easing off the chair and kissing her.

Reluctantly I broke the kiss and sat back on the chair. “Ha, ha, cheeky woman. You know I’d never let that happen.” Her laugh was music to my ears and I basked in the sound for a moment or two before I spoke again. “Bear, when was the last time you had your period?”

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