Derek nodded. “We’ll stand guard outside the curtain.”
They left and the doctor turned to me.”You know I’m not going to hurt her, right?”
“It’s not for you. We’re on a protection detail. The three of us stay together.”
The man looked like he wanted to say something, but decided against it. He examined Florrie, called for a few tests, and then left us alone in the room while he went to check on a few patients. Florrie was calmer now, but I could tell that she was just barely holding it together. I gripped her hand in mine and bent over to kiss her.
“It’s going to be okay. No matter what happens.”
“I didn’t think I would ever get pregnant,” she cried. “I can’t lose this baby.”
“I know, but if it’s meant to be, we’ll have the baby. If not, we’re pretty damn good on our own. Okay? It’s you and me, babe.”
She nodded, but I felt her tears slipping down her cheeks and rubbing against mine. Outside, I was calm and collected, but inside, I was raging, cursing God for putting us through this again. She was on birth control. Yeah, I knew she’s been late on taking her pills a few times, but it was supposed to be difficult to get pregnant. She was taking the pills mostly for the endometriosis. This was never supposed to happen. We were never supposed to have to deal with this again.
The curtain flung back and the doctor walked in, his face bright when I had expected something entirely different. “Well, the good news is that everything appears fine so far.”
We both stared at him, waiting for him to say that he was just fucking with us or something. When neither of us spoke, he tried again.
“That means that you’re healthy and so is the baby.”
Florrie quirked her head to the side, shaking her head slightly. “What does that mean?”
“It means that for now, you should go home and celebrate. You’re going to have a baby.”
I shook my head, unable to believe it. “Until when?”
The doctor’s face turned kind and he smiled at us both. “There are no guarantees in life, but I’m not seeing anything to suggest that this pregnancy won’t be perfectly normal. I would suggest that you make an appointment with your OB as soon as possible and let her know what’s going on. She’ll probably monitor you more closely due to what you’ve already experienced, but so far, I’m not seeing any reason to believe that you’ll lose this baby.”
Florrie started shaking in my arms. This was everything we had hoped for, but never thought we would have, and now this doctor was telling us that all our dreams were about to come true. It was just too damn much to take.
“Fuck,” I whispered, kissing Florrie hard. “I love you so much.”
She nodded, tears slipping down her cheeks as she gripped me to her. The curtain swung back again and Hunter stepped in.
“Aw, shit. Don’t tell me-”
“No, we didn’t lose it. We’re gonna have a baby!”
Hunter’s face broke out in a grin and he rushed forward, dragging the pisser with him. Derek was there just moments later, all of them pushing in to wrap us in a group hug.
“This is so fucking awesome, man!”
“What’s going on?” I lifted my head to see who had joined us, grinning when I saw Rocco and Craig standing by the curtain.
“Florrie’s going to have a baby,” I laughed.
“No shit? Aw, that’s so fucking awesome!” Craig and Rocco came over and joined us in this huge group hug. It was really fucking weird, and I was sure that Dr. Sunshine would have a thing or two to say about it, but in that moment, I didn’t give a shit. I had both of my teams with me and my woman was going to have a baby.
Craig sniffed and his head popped up to look at me. “Why does it smell like piss?”
CHAPTER FORTY-SIXFlorrie
I smiled as we walked into Dr. Sunshine’s office. After everything we had been through, things weren’t looking too bad anymore. Alec and I were doing great, in fact. It had been a few weeks since we found out I was pregnant, and I wasn’t going to lie, it had been a rough few weeks. Alec and I were terrified every single day that I was going to miscarry. After the initial joy, it all started to really sink in, all the doubt and heartache started to seep back into our minds. Alec watched my every move, insisting that I stay in bed most days, and I had listened because I was just as terrified. But then we went to the doctor, and she had assured me that everything looked great. She reminded me that living in fear was worse for me than just taking everything one day at a time and learning to enjoy what was up ahead.
For the past week, Alec and I slowly started returning to our lives. I didn’t go into work, mostly because I was still terrified. But I also decided that I wanted to enjoy this overwhelming feeling of joy. If something did happen to the baby, I didn’t want to regret not slowing down and taking the time to enjoy this. I read parenting books and started thinking about a baby’s room. But there were also moments that I just relaxed on my new deck and read Guns And Ammo. I still needed my fix, after all.
There were three rooms upstairs, one of which used to be Reid’s. I couldn’t bring myself to move his stuff out of that room yet. We weren’t replacing him with this baby. So, everything stayed the same and the baby would have a brand new room.
“Alec, Florrie…Craig. It’s great to see all three of you. Again.” Dr. Sunshine beamed at us, motioning for us to enter her office. “So, how are things going?”
I took a deep breath and grinned. “I’m pregnant.”
“Wow.” She smiled back, nodding her head. “And how do
