Bought For A Baby, Kept For A Lifetime-Chapter 114: Pregnant

"It’s a good thing you called me on time, she’s suffering from severe hypothermia. But I’ve gotten to regulate her body temperature. Her heart rate and blood pressure are normal, thankfully she didn’t suffer a cardiac arrest. I’ll need to continue monitoring her condition for the next few hours, but she needs a lot of rest."

The woman laying on the bed was surrounded by countless heat pads keeping her warm, an IV drip attached to her hand. She’d been laying unconscious for a while, but her complexion slowly began to return to normal from the abnormally pale color it had been a while ago.

Shawn stared at his friend’s face noticing the latter’s expression had returned to normal as well, but only after hearing that she was doing better.

He’d been the one to witness how urgent his voice had sounded when Andrew had called him over the phone. He’d rushed over even before Andrew had brought the girl to the Sterling estate, knowing her condition, as Andrew explained over the phone that she was cold yet burning up at the same time, he’d brought along all the things he needed to regulate her temperature.

Shawn knew that Andrew didn’t rush her to the hospital and had instead called him because he trusted his abilities, which ultimately meant that the person whose life was in danger meant a lot to him.

If that fact didn’t prove that she was, then the uncomfortable temper he’d displayed and the sheer anxiety uncontrollably shining in his eyes when he brought her in was confirmation enough of it.

Shawn held a curious question on his tongue, knowing he couldn’t voice it if he didn’t want to piss the man off.

That question was simple, four simple words that would cause chaos in the ever controlling Andrew’s mind.

Do you love her?

If Shawn was asked to answer that question, he already knew what answer he would give.

The only girl who makes you pace with anxiety, desperately waiting to hear that she would be fine.

The only girl that makes your heart beat wildly, so much so the beast you’ve always prided yourself in being Is kept at bay.

The only girl that brings enough warmth to your soul, so much so it heals you and gives you the ability to rest when nothing else does.

This was nothing else if not that emotion you’ll never mention, the emotion you swore never to accept.

Sighing, Shawn remained silent as Andrew walked forward, leaning next to the girl on the bed. The hard frown on his face settling, subtly with hesitant hands he caressed her face.

Reminded about something he’d wanted to mention a while ago when he’d studied her pulse, Shawn spoke up.

"Andrew, there’s something... it’s just a suspicion but..."

Andrew heard his friend talking, but he made no reaction to show he did. His gaze was fixed onto her, the steady rhythm of his own heart distracting, but a lot more settled than the panic filled thud it had been a while ago when she’d gone quiet in his arms.

"I think...she might be pregnant."

His soft touch against her cheek stiffened as those words entered his ears.

"What did you say?" There was a low darkness to his voice that made Shawn wonder,

Could she be seeing someone else? What if he was right about the pregnancy, and what if the child was someone else’s?

He knew the girl must have slept with Andrew, but then again there was still a chance the child might not be his, hence he had contemplated if it would be right to tell his friend or not, but after he’d thought about it, he knew his friend had to know, even if the pregnancy was not his.

Shawn was used to Andrew’s secretive lifestyle. They both knew each other, but they didn’t know some things about each other deeply. They were friends but never pried too deeply into each other’s secrets.

That kind of friendship had worked for them both, because Shawn himself had secrets he never shared.

"I’m not so sure yet, but I want to take a test first. I think she’s pregnant." Shawn said once more.

He could not be certain, but earlier when he’d taken her pulse, he’d felt something from a technique he learned from an old doctor whose conference he’d once attended, the change in a woman’s beating pulse when she was carrying another life inside her.

Of course it wasn’t a sure enough way to test for pregnancy as sometimes there could be abnormalities in the pulse especially because she wasn’t feeling too well at the moment, but it was worth bringing up.

"I could be wrong, but it would be confirmed if she had a pregnancy test to make sure..."

"Do it." Andrew’s voice suddenly interrupted.

"What?"

"Do the test and tell me for certain, if she truly Is pregnant."

"Well, a pregnancy test requires the consent of the person being tested. I’ll have to wait for her to regain consciousness first before..."

Andrew fixed him with a level gaze.

"If she’s pregnant, it’s certainly mine. Do the test, I want to know." His voice sounded extremely calm but what shocked Shawn about his statement was the certainty that the child was his.

Andrew never trusted women, not even one bit, and here he was not doubting a woman carrying his child at all.

It made a warm smile appear on Shawn’s face. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

"Alright, I’ll take a blood sample for the test."

Upon Andrew’s insistence that the test results be brought to him as soon as possible, Shawn went to the lab himself to carry out the test. At around dawn he returned to the estate to give the test back to Andrew with a positive result.

"Just as I suspected, the test came out positive." Shawn said handing the result to his friend.

Reading through it calmly, Andrew didn’t show a single ripple of emotion.

"You’re going to be a father, congrats."

Shawn couldn’t help but have a strange thought, a slight envy coming from a place deep within his heart. He put himself in Andrew’s shoes for a try but the lady in his thoughts was someone else, someone his heart always yearned for.

If this happened to him, if he’d been the one to hear the news that he would soon be fathering a child from the woman he loved, he would be too happy to keep his smile hidden, too happy to remain calm, too happy to remember how to breathe. He would want to hug and kiss her and let her know how incredibly happy he was and how grateful he was that she would be bringing a new life with both their bloods running in it’s veins into this world.

But he knew there was a big difference in him and Andrew’s personality, hence the latter’s calmness no longer surprised him.

But he had to ask, "Aren’t you happy you’ll soon be having a child?"

Andrew’s calm gaze raised from the papers slowly, he stared steadily at Shawn before he slowly replied.

"Happiness, was never for me. There are just certain things that have to be done, and I’ll get them done to achieve my goals."

Though Shawn couldn’t understand those words, he knew Andrew wouldn’t elaborate so he changed the question.

"And what about her?"

"She’s fulfilled the purpose she needs to fulfill in my life." He said succinctly once more without elaborating.

Shawn could only frown thoughtfully. But in the end, he sighed quietly and let it go deciding not to probe too deeply.

He left when his job was done and he confirmed again that Anne’s condition had indeed settled, but he didn’t expect to suddenly be stopped by one of the butlers in the estate, that was when Shawn realized that things might not completely be as Andrew thought after all. His reaction had been to strictly guide the confidentiality of his patient and his friend so he didn’t share any information, even when the person seeking the information had been elder Sterling, but what he didn’t know was that the butler had his own means of acquiring the test results he’d refused to share.

.....

Andrew held the test papers calmly in his hands.

She’s pregnant!

The words reverberated in his head again with a heavy bang but through it all, his calm demeanor didn’t break.

He stared down at the woman whose dainty curves showed their outline over the sheets covering her up.

His exact thoughts could not be deciphered, but he remained standing over the sleeping woman staring into her face for what seems like forever, if one looked over to the clock on the wall, one would notice the hour hand moving slowly, yet as that stretch of time passed by, as minutes became hours he didn’t move. When he did, his legs were sore for having stood for a long time but his gait remained strictly straight, he exited the room without returning again.