“Don’t you think it’s time you get going? Let’s not make this situation any worse,” he murmured out in a husky voice while giving me a stern look. What the hell? I was getting a look that was reserved for his students and Caleb when he was being uncontrollable. I guess if I thought about it, I was being a little immature. I was the adult here, and I needed to act like it.
“Fine, I guess you’re right,” I huffed. He gave me a sideways hug and then cleared his throat, his students quickly quieting down and bringing their attention to the front of the room.
“Everyone this is my wife, Leah. Luckily, she brought in my briefcase for me this afternoon, so the quiz I promised will be going on as planned.” The class gave a unified groan but it was more of a cheerful one, I could tell that his students truly liked him. It would be pretty hard not to.
Unfortunately, some liked him too much. Chase gave me a quick kiss on the cheek before I left and I watched out of the corner of my eye as he did so, blonde bimbo narrowed her eyes at me with a heated glare and she raised an eyebrow, like she was trying to challenge me or something. Sorry, sweetie. No challenge here what-so-ever. I quietly left the room as Chase began to pass out quizzes and walked back out to the parking lot, hoping that this mess for Chase would be over as soon as possible.
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“Wake up, graduate, don’t you need to get to the doctor early?” Chase’s nose moved across my jaw and trailed down to my neck, before he placed one kiss in the crook and slowly pulled away, pissing me off in more ways than one.
“Please remind me why I made an appointment so early, especially when I’m finally done with school,” I groaned when I sat up and rubbed at my eyes, trying to clear some of the sleep away.
“I don’t know babe, but you do need to get up. I let you sleep as late as possible. I already got Caleb up for the day so I can drop him off at my mom’s house on my way to work. So get that sweet ass moving, pronto.”
I shoved him in the chest, which caused him to laugh before kissing me once more and walked back out into the hallway. If I was a little bit more awake, I would be dragging his ass back in here and demanding that he make up for waking me up so early. Maybe I could pull that card later.
Caleb ran into the bathroom right after I got out of the shower and wrapped his arms around me in a quick hug. “Bye Mommy, I’m going to Grandma Mary’s house to play with Belle. Chase said you’re gonna come over for lunch.”
“Yup buddy, I will see you later this afternoon. Love you.”
“Love you too, Mommy.” I watched as he bounced out of the bathroom and then proceeded to get dressed. I bent down to shimmy on my jeans, wincing as I did it.
“Need some help with that?” I turned around to see Chase smirking at me with a to-go cup of coffee in his hands.
He liked to tease me about my growing belly and he knew it got on my nerves. We hadn’t told Caleb about the baby yet, because truthfully four year olds see time in a whole different way than we do. So when I started to show, Caleb began to comment on how Mommy was getting fat. That kid was lucky I loved him so much the first time it came out of his mouth.
“No, I don’t, thank you. I think you need to be going, Mr. O’Neil. Have a good day at work.” After yesterday, I would see as how it would be hard for him to go to work every day when he knew he would have to deal with the blonde bimbo, but he always had a smile on his face and never acted like it bothered him.
“Alright.” He leaned down to kiss the side of my neck and then bent all the way down to slide my shoes on for me without a word. Sometimes he could be so sweet when he wanted to be. “Call me after your appointment; I’ll get back to you in between classes. Love you, Leah.”
“Love you.”
I pulled into the doctor’s office with about a minute to spare before my appointment. Luckily, I wasn’t stuck in the waiting room for long and I was in the room quickly getting all my vitals checked. The nurse leaned the table back right before the doctor came in and spread the cold jelly across my belly.
Today should be the day we were finding out what we were having as long as the baby cooperated. I was crossing my fingers for a girl, but either way we would be happy. Chase had considered taking the day off from work, but we didn’t think it was such a good idea since the school board was already on his ass.
“Hi Leah dear, how are we doing today? Have you had any problems that you needed to discuss?” Dr. Strahan walked in, washing his hands immediately and placing the Doppler on my stomach.
“Nope, none whatsoever.” I leaned back onto the squishy pillow they provided and looked at the screen while he ran the instrument across my stomach and pressed lightly with his fingers.
“Hmm…,” he tapped his free hand on his chin while staring at the monitor intently and then turned back to look at me. “Are you sure you haven’t been having any problems? Any cramping? Spotting?”