A Son for A Billionaire novel Chapter 24

EPISODE TWENTY FIVE

Theme: A stranger’s baby

(FLASHBACK TO TEN YEARS AGO)

WINSLOW, ARIZONA.

(SIX WEEKS LATER : SAINT PAUL HOSPITAL)

The old looking doctor with an eyeglasses placed right on his nose looked up at Ivy. “You are pregnant.” He announced with a small smile on his face.

Ivy eyes widened and her mouth went slack. Her heart beat accelerated at the doctor’s words. “Are ..are..you sure?” Ivy asked the doctor.

It was really a silly question to ask when she knew very well that she was pregnant. It was already six weeks after spending one night with Ace, the intervening week she had have skimpy period at first meaning she was most emphatically pregnant.

And she has gone back to check on Ace at the beach house. She had slept with a stranger and now she was pregnant. Where? or how would she find him just to let him know she was carrying his child. The past few days her body had felt different and her period had failed to finally appear.

“The test is positive. Can I get a date for conception or falling to that, the date of your last period?” The doctor requested.

Ivy Rivera dug into her purse, pulled out a paper on which she had noted the time she made love with Ace, the date of last period and handed it to the doctor.

The old doctor adjusted his eyeglasses. “The conception date is accurate.” The doctor asserted after some moments of silence.

Ivy sat nimbly trying to reach into the future and grasp what was going to happen. How radically her life was going to change. Now she had to face the consequence of being a single parent and her parents would hate her the more if they found out she was pregnant. No doubt, they would disown her if they found out she was carrying a strange man’s child.

The thought of getting rid of the baby occurred to her but she kicked against it. She wasn’t going to kill an innocent soul for her own mistake. No her child wouldn’t be termed a mistake. She would have this child, a fierce protectiveness grew in her as she touched her flat stomach.

If the worst should come, she would have to leave town to avoid gossips and bad glares and being mocked by those who knew her legacy.

Ivy Rivera decided that she wouldn’t stand the chance of raising her child in this damn town. But before leaving town, she would visit Ace’s work place again.

She rubbed her stomach with gentle fingers barely listening to the doctor's advice on nutrition and anti natal care.

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RIVERA HOME

“What is the result?” Emily asked when Ivy got back from the hospital.

She was surprised to see her sister dragging a traveling box across the room towards her bed.

“The test says positive. I am pregnant.” Ivy packed her few clothes into the box.

Emily hands covered her mouth.

“I can't let mom or dad find out about it.” Ivy added.

“So why are you packing your things?” Emily asked trying to stop her sister from packing. “You can’t leave, Ivy.”

“Once mom and dad finds out I am pregnant, it will only confirms it to them that I have been sleeping around.” She continued packing.

“No, you haven’t been sleeping around. It was just one man.” Emily countered.

Ivy had opened up to her sister few days after she couldn't hide it anymore. Ivy needed to tell someone about it so her sister was the only available person who could listen and probably not blame her for giving herself freely to a stranger.

She didn’t want to at first but Emily had cried every morning by her side, cuddled her to tell her what was bothering her and then she had to spill everything. She had expected Emily to yell insults at her, had expected her to curse her for giving herself freely to an unknown man but instead she had hugged her and blamed their parents for what happened. Emily had cried with Ivy that evening.

When her period failed to appear Emily had advised her to see the doctor and assured her that everything would be alright even if the test came out positive.

“They will never believe me.” Ivy argued.

“They will believe me if I explain things to them.” Emily replied.

“This isn’t about you. For God sake Emily, I am pregnant! And I am not going to wait for them to find out because-“ she paused to bit back tears that threatened to spill anytime soon.