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Alessandro Moretti
Why are you at a doctor’s office???
Stalker much?
You’re my wife, Isa. I want to make sure you’re okay.
I’m fine.
Then why are you at a doctor? Do I need to come and sit with you?
Panic courses through me. Crap! I didn’t expect him to say that. I mean, he hasn’t tried to see me any other time, so why now. Is it because he thinks I’m ill?
Like I said, I’m fine. I’m just getting set up with a primary care physician, and this one came highly recommended.
Not a lie. The receptionist at my attorney’s office recommended this obstetrician and spoke highly of her.
Alessandro doesn’t reply, so I type out another message.
I’m fine. Truly.
You’d tell me if you weren’t?
Yes. Of course.
I still miss you.
My eyes water. I’m typing out a reply when my name is called.
“Isabetta Bass?”
Dropping my phone into my bag, I stand. “Hi.”
The nurse smiles, motioning me to follow her through the door. We walk down a long hallway with pink and blue walls. My heart pounds with each step that I take.
This is it.
After today, I’ll know.
I leave the office an hour later in shock. I’m pregnant. Not only that, but, according to the tests, I’m at least four months pregnant, which means Alessandro and I conceived right off the bat.
Alessandro is going to be a father.
I’m going to be a mother.
Oh my god.
In the SUV, Steven asks, “Where to, Ms. Bass?”
I need time to think before I speak to Alessandro, so I say, “Can we go to the Bellagio? I’d like to walk around for a bit.”
He smiles at me in the mirror. “Going to see the fountains again?”
“Guilty.”
“It’s a nice day for that. We’re supposed to get up to sixty-four degrees today.”
I nod, but I’m distracted. I knew I was pregnant, but hearing the heartbeat changed everything in an instant. And my first thought was that Alessandro should be there with me. My eyes water. Leaving him was the right thing to do, but how can I stay away when I’m carrying his child?
