Modern Arrangements: Complete Trilogy (Modern Arrangements #1-3) (44 page)

"Mr. Iverson?"

I'd taken way too long to respond.

"I'm sure doctor. She was adamant
about taking the pill."

"Hmm...well, the OB/GYN will be
coming to visit her after the last of her blood work is complete, as well as her
scan." He smiled halfheartedly. "Do you have any questions?"

"When will you take her out of the
coma?"

"Hopefully we can let her regain
consciousness tomorrow after her scan in the morning."

"And you are sure that the drugs
aren’t hurting the baby?"

"I assure you that we are taking all
the precautionary measures." He patted my back and then cleared his
throat. "Um...congratulations." He left the room quickly.

I climbed back into bed with Lilli and
placed my hand over her stomach.

 Lilli was having my baby. We are having
a baby. I am going to be a father. The woman I love is going to give birth to a
child that we created together.

I stayed lost in my thoughts until I
finally reconciled that Lilli would know that I was in love with her before we
left. I drifted off to dreams filled with a small girl that looked exactly like
Lilli, but with my hair color.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Lilli

Beeping. More Beeping. Muffled voices.
What the hell was going...ow, my head. I groaned.

"Lilli? Lilli, love?" Was that
Aidan?

"Lil?" Dixon?

"Oh, Lilli, please be awake."
That was definitely Phoebe.

I groaned again, though I had meant to
speak.

Damp warmth spread on my forehead and I pried
my eyes apart to blaring white light. I squinted and cringed back from the
brightness.

"W-where..?"

"The hospital. Shh...take your time,
love." I smiled slightly at the new little name Aidan seemed to have
developed for me.

"W-what..?"

"You were in a car accident,
everything is fine," Phoebe spoke and I could tell that it was her
squeezing my hand.

My mind was spinning, finally catching
up with everything.

"Donald!" I shouted and tried
to sit up.

Aidan held me down.

"He's fine, Lilli, he is in
recovery. Everything went perfectly."

I sighed in relief.

"My head," I groaned out.

"You hit your head hard, but you
will be fine." Dixon was patting my leg as he spoke.

"I want to sit up."

I felt movement around me and then my
bed was slowly moving up.

I rubbed my eyes and looked around the
room. Celia, Phoebe, Aidan, Dixon, Viola, Liam, Maggie, and my mother were all
standing around me with smiles on their faces.

"Oh, baby," Sarah moved
quickly to me and leaned over, kissing my cheek.

"Mom?" I questioned.

"Yes, baby."

"You're here?"

"Of course I am. Did you really think
I wouldn't be?" She sounded shocked.

"Thank you." I said.

"Oh, baby, don't thank me. I am so
happy that you’re okay." I could see the tears slipping down her cheeks.

"Don't cry, I'm fine."

"She is beyond fine. She is doing
extremely well!" I saw a large dark haired man enter the room, the white
coat and scrubs declaring him a doctor. "I hate to break up the reunion. However,
I do need to check over our patient now that she is awake and speaking."
Everyone groaned. "I promise that you can all return once we finish up in
here."

Everyone patted me on some part of my
body and told me that they would be back, only Aidan stayed.

"So, how are you feeling?"

"Groggy and my head hurts," I
answered.

"The grogginess is the medicine
still working its way out of your system, now the head pain, scale of one to
ten?"

"Five," I answered.

"I'll get some Ibuprofen brought in
soon." He looked down to his clipboard. "Well, you have my clearance,
though you will have to keep your ankle wrapped and stay off of it as much as
possible." When he saw my confusion he explained. "You suffered
bruising and a fracture to your ankle during the car accident."

Then I remembered.

"The construction truck," I
whispered. The doctor nodded.

"We also need to discuss another
matter; however, I would like to wait for Doctor Munthers to join us before we
go any further. She should be along shortly. I will go get the ibuprofen while
we wait." He smiled and quickly left the room.

I turned to Aidan.

"Other matter? What's wrong with
me?"

Aidan stiffened. That made me more
nervous.

"It's nothing...wrong."

"Aidan?" I knew I was starting
to panic.

"Lilli, do you still take—?"

"Here we go." The familiar
doctor walked in with a small white cup and a tall woman with auburn hair and a
white coat. He handed me the pills and poured me some water. "Take these
for the headache." He then turned to the other doctor. "This is
Doctor Munthers. She is our head OB/GYN at the hospital."

I furrowed my brow.

"OB/GYN? Why do I need..?"

"Mrs. Iverson, we were made aware
by your husband that you did not know at the time of the accident; however, you
are pregnant." My mouth fell open as the shock set in. "Dr. Munthers
is here to perform a few tests before we officially discharge you from the
hospital."

"Wait, wait, wait! I am on birth
control" I argued.

"Birth control is only 99%
effective." The auburn haired doctor stated. "However, we found no
traces of birth control in your system." She eyed me curiously, almost as
if I were lying.

"Where's my purse? I am not lying.
I carry it with me." I slammed my hands to my sides. I glared at Aidan,
but he simply looked down at the bed, not speaking. "Did you know about
this?" I hissed.

Aidan looked at me guiltily.

"Not until I arrived here and Dr.
Sherman mentioned a baby. I told him about you being on the pill and they started
to explain the same..."

"Where is my purse?" Aidan
moved to a closet and pulled it out, handing it to me.

I pulled out the small purple pouch and
tossed it on the bed in their direction. The doctor's looked at each other and
then Dr. Munthers picked the pack up.

"Do you mind if I test these?"
She turned the pack over in her hands.

"Of course not." She walked
out of the room and then returned a few moments later.

"I am having the lab look at those
immediately." She half smiled and then moved to my side. "I want to
do a couple of tests while we wait." I nodded that she could continue.

"Lilli, love, we will figure this
out, okay?" I looked at Aidan, the look on his face was making warnings go
off in my mind.

"Okay, first, I want to tell you
that your HcG levels are very high and we want to get a better ultrasound than
the ER can offer to find out why. Plus it will let us know about how far along
you are."

"My what levels?" I furrowed
my brow.

"HcG. It's a hormone produced
during pregnancy. The higher the level, the further along you are,
typically." She turned to a machine that had been pushed in by a nurse,
raised my gown to reveal my bare abdomen, and squeezed a clear-blue gel on me.
"This is warmed up so it will be comfortable." Then she took a small hand
piece and pressed it to my stomach. "Okay, let's have a look."

Slowly she moved around my abdomen, her
fingers clicking buttons, and rolled around a large ball, sort of like those
golf arcade machines. I swallowed hard when I saw the wide grin spread on her
face.

"Well, well..."

"What?" Aidan and I asked in
unison.

She pointed to a black area with a white
bundle.

"Here is your baby." I
squinted to get a better look. "And this little flutter is the
heartbeat." Then my eyes went wide. I was pregnant. How the hell?
"And you see right here?"

"Yes." Aidan answered.

"This is your other baby and there
is the heartbeat." She turned to look at us both. I was pregnant with
twins. Holy...

"I don't understand." I shook
my head, my chest tightening, breath evading me.

"Take a deep breath, Lilli."
Dr. Munthers removed the hand piece and looked into my face with her hand on my
shoulder. "I know it's a lot to take in, but calm down."

I took deep breaths and slowly calmed
myself.

"Dr. Munthers?" A small nurse
appeared with a large white folder. "The test results that you asked for."
She handed her the folder.

"Thanks, Abby." Dr. Munthers
said as Abby left the room.

She looked over the folder and flipped
some papers, repeating the same action three times.

"What is it?" I asked
nervously.

"Lilli, you weren't taking birth
control pills." She looked up to me with a shocked expression. "Those
were Clomid pills." She looked confused.

"What the hell is Clomid?" I
exclaimed. "And how the hell did that get replaced with my pills?"

"I-I don't know how, but Clomid is
given to women with fertility issues who are trying to have a baby." She
shook her head. "It’s impossible to mix them up like this. Clomid doesn't
come in a pack like birth control does."

"What? Why? Who—?" It was as
if pieces were starting to fall into place.

I was remembering different things all
at once, but they all seemed to relate to each other. 'It's been taken care
of', 'Dr. Johnson, the family doctor', 'Hell, Aidan Sr. put the doctor through
college practically as well as his daughter, Becca', 'Oh, she is a pharmacist'.
Aidan needed an heir, he was close family friends to the doctor that he asked
me to go to and then his daughter was a pharmacist! Could that be how I knew
her? The pharmacy?

Aidan seemed to see the expression on my
face because he looked terrified.

"What did you do to me?" I
shouted so loud that even Dr. Munthers jumped back from my bed.

"Lilli, I didn't do—"

"Don't lie to me!" I
exclaimed. "You're the one who wanted me to go to your family doctor and
you are the only one who would have access to my birth control pills!" He
tried to speak again, but I cut him off. "And, if you think for one minute
that I didn't feel your tense reaction to Becca at the ball, you are sadly
mistaken!" I knew hurtful words were spewing from my mouth and daggers
were shooting from my eyes. "You drugged me? Are you insane?"

"I didn't do any such thing,"
Aidan hissed and stood quickly beside me. "I would never do that to
you!"

"That's a bit hard to believe right
now! Here I am, after having been drugged for however long, pregnant with your
children! How convenient for you." I crossed my arms over my chest.

"I swear to you that I didn't have
anything to do with this, Lilli. I promise you that I will find out who did,
but I don't know anything about this," He was pleading, but I just
couldn't ignore everything that I had pieced together.

"What about your call a week ago,
Aidan? Was this…" I motioned to my stomach "what you have taken care
of'? Huh?

He seemed to go pale and speechless.

"That's what I fucking thought! Get
out!" I screamed.

"No!" He shouted back. "I
will not get out! You have this all confused, I made sure that you got the
birth control pills!"

"What?" I spit out, not believing
a word coming from his lips.

He sighed.

"Look, I talked to Dr. Johnson
after your appointment to ensure that no one, especially my family, found out
that you were taking birth control." He sighed heavily. "I know that
I should have told you that, but I just needed to keep it from my family and
public knowledge."

"What are you talking about?"
I growled.

"I called to make sure that it was
all kept a secret so that my family wouldn't freak out and so that our clients,
who are counting on the Iverson's to keep AIS, weren't aware that we were not 'trying'
for the heir." He got on his knees next to my bed.

"I swear to you, Lilli, I did not
change your pills or give you some fucking drug. I just...I was scared to deal
with my uncle, my family, and the clients." He grabbed my right hand and
refused to let go of it. Placing his forehead on my hand he continued.

"I would never do that to you,
Lilli. I love you. Can't you see how in love I am with you?"

My breath caught.

He loved me? He chooses now to tell me
that he loves me! Was it just a ploy for him to use?

I sighed and threw my head back.

"I don't know whether I should
believe you or not, Aidan. I really just don't know." Then I remembered
that he didn't answer me about Becca. "What about Becca?" I eyed him.