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They didn’t have long to wait before Chloe was called back. She lay on the table and lifted her shirt. He still couldn’t get over the bump and that his child was in there.
Listening to the heartbeat was amazing to him but seeing this was going to be more.
“I’m Nancy and we’re going to take a bunch of pictures of the baby. Do you want to know the sex today if the baby cooperates?”
“We do,” Chloe said.
“I’m going to warm the gel up for you a little and if the baby is sleeping I’ll try to wake him or her up,” Nancy said.
Chloe reached for his hand and held it while Nancy put the gel on her belly and started to move it around. They listened as different organs and parts were pointed out and pictures were taken, but to him it looked like a little alien. He knew enough to not say that though because he was already in love with his little alien.
“Looks like the legs are wide open,” Royce said. “Or am I looking at something else?”
“Nope, you’re right,” Nancy said. “And as you can tell there isn’t much between the legs and you’re having a little girl.”
“Yes,” he said doing a fist pump.
Chloe turned and looked at him. “You said you didn’t care.”
“I don’t care,” he said. “I would have reacted that way with a boy too.” He knew his smile was filling his face. He couldn’t help it.
Chloe just laughed. “I feel the same. It just seems so much more real now,” she said. “Everything else is okay?”
“The baby is measuring slightly bigger than average, but since her father is a big man, that makes sense. The doctor will get these results and talk about it at your next visit.”
“What does that mean if the baby is big?” Royce asked.
“Nothing really. But since Chloe isn’t a big person they will determine if she can give birth naturally or not. You’d know the sizes of the people in your family. Maybe you were a big baby but not a big person now,” Nancy said to Chloe.
He saw Chloe close her eyes. “I was a little over seven pounds my mother said.”
“I was ten pounds ten ounces,” he said proudly. “My father told me the other day.”
“Urgh,” she said. “And you’re just sharing this now? Good lord. You’re not the one pushing this kid out. How big was Elise? Maybe the girls are smaller?”
“Elise was over ten pounds too but not as big as me,” he said. “Sorry.”
“It is what it is,” she said.
She pulled her shirt down and Royce helped her off the table. “All good?” he asked. “Happy?”
“I am,” she said.
They left and were back in his truck. He was going to bring her to work and get back to the site. “I have to call my father and tell him,” he said.
“I’m going to call my mother and father and let them know. Then I’ll text Dane. I know they are going to be asking at work too. Guess we can start to plan her room now more too.”
“If you want to,” he said.
“We can talk it over tonight,” she said.
“You’re quiet,” he said. “What’s going on?”
“Knowing I’m having a daughter now, I guess I’m thinking of Emily and what she went through. I don’t want my daughter to think she can’t tell me something. Or even think she might be taken advantage of by anyone. Let alone an older man.”
Those thoughts had been going through his brain a lot too. “Finding out the name of your father isn’t going to change those things. We’ll just have to make sure that our daughter knows she can come to us for anything.”
“I know. And we will. I’m thinking of reaching out to Emily one more time. It’s been over a month. I guess I just want closure if she is going to tell me or not so I can move on.”
