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"If it weren't evening we would be able to hold the scan tonight. Except for emergencies we only hold them during daytime hours."
"What if thisisan emergency?" Kit said from behind me.
"I don't think that's the case here."
"How do you know that?" Kit asked back quickly, upping the awkwardness tenfold.
"Kit, perhaps you should leave," I said without turning to look at him.
Doctor Simone stared from me back to Kit until eventually, he watched Kit stalking out of the room.
"I'm sorry about him," I said.
"Don't apologise. By the looks of him, he's had a terrible night. I understand he's only worried about you."
Nodding, I tried to agree the best I could as he set up the observations.
"Everything seems fine here," he said after monitoring my blood pressure and heart rate.
"Now, I need you to lay down so I can hook you up to my baby observation kit."
I did as he said and watched in fascination as he placed bands around my stomach and then hooked them up to his machine that displayed the baby’s movements and heart rate.
"It's difficult to say what we'll pick up with you still being under twenty weeks, but this should pick up their heartbeat."
All I could do was nod and stare at the machine.
"I'll leave this for thirty minutes so I have a full report."
I placed my hands flat on either side of my body.
"That looks like an expensive piece of kit."
"That's why only private doctors carry them," he smiled.
I nodded, glancing at his hands pressing buttons on the screen.
"Give it thirty minutes so I can get a good reading."
I nodded again and Doctor Simone took a seat and began filling in some paperwork. I watched the clock addictively, counting every second until twenty minutes had passed and Kit returned looking much more put together than he had when he'd left. Firstly, he was wearing a t-shirt, and it looked like his injuries had been cared for because his face wasn't covered in blood anymore and he had a strip across his eyebrow.
"I just need to grab something from my car, I'll be right back," the doctor said and I nodded, offering him a faint smile.
I wasn't expecting Kit to take a seat at the single chair across the coffee table. Once he did, I heard him take a deep intake of breath and he brought both of his hands together at his mouth before taking me in.
"How much does he know?" I asked him, looking at the door that Doctor Simone had left through.
"He's hired under strict confidentiality, he pretty much knows everything apart from the fact that you are indeed the head of Delta."
"I'm not the head. I handed those roles to you."
"You handed me your roles, not your ownership. No matter what, Delta belongs to you."
I stared at my stomach, bare with the bands wrapped around.
"So, he probably thinks I'm just another rich girl that needs protecting from the bad men trying to steal my daddy's money," I rolled my eyes. I wished that was the case, at least then I'd still have my dad.
"What does it matter what he thinks?" he frowned. "Besides, he wasn't even supposed to be here. I requested a female doctor. He will have been briefed at the last minute."
