Chapter 74

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"Ell." A voice comes. "Eloise." The voice is firmer this time. Clothed arms wrap around me, one circling around my waist and the other crossing over my body to grab my shoulder on the opposite side to the arm holding it. A body presses against my back firmly. "Eloise, it's ok." It's Dominic's voice speaking to me as he gently pulls me out from under the shower head.

"Dominic?" I whisper as I turn my head to see him. "When did you get back?"

He sighs heavily. "Ten minutes ago." I waited in the bedroom for a bit but then got worried when you didn't come out so I called out to you, you didn't answer so I came in. I kept calling your name, Ell. You were so lost in thought." He says softly.

I nod simply. I hadn't heard him calling out to me.

"Whats on your mind?"

I shake my head. "I can't do this." I say truthfully. "I can't be a Mum."

Dominic's hold on me tightens. "Well cross that road when we come to it, how about we take the first step and find out before we jump to any conclusions?" Dominic suggests gently.

"I don't know that I can." I whisper.

Dominic is silent a minute as he just holds me. "Let's get you out of the shower and dressed, we'll get you something to drink and then when you're ready you can take the test. Does that sound OK?"

I shrug. I feel numb.

"Hey." Dominic whispers in my ear before turning me around to face him. "I'm going to be here, by your side, the whole time."

I nod slowly.

Dominic reaches behind me to switch off the shower, he takes my hands in his and takes steps backwards until we're out of the shower. He lets go of one of my hands and grabs my towel off the heated rail. Wrapping the towel around my shoulders he pulls me against him and envelopes me in another tight hug.

Dominic leads me from the bathroom a few minutes later, and into the closet. He dresses me in clean panties, a pain of sweat pants, and one of his t-shirts.

"Do you want to come down to the kitchen with me or wait here?" Dominic asks softly as he cups my chin.

I can't face Max while I'm like this, he'll know immediately that somethings wrong and then it won't take him long to find out what's going on. "Here." I say numbly.

Dominic nods and plants a light kiss between my eyebrows. "Go sit on the bed, I'll grab you a tea and some water?"

I nod slowly before something comes to mind. "Would I be allowed tea... if I am..."

"It will be fine, a cup here and there wont hurt anyone." Dominic says. "My sister had a baby a couple years ago, she had a cup of coffee every day through her pregnancy and my nephew was born very healthy." He explains after I present him with a confused look.

I give a small nod.

Dominic guides me over to my side of the bed where he sits me down. His thumb strokes my cheek. "It's going to be ok." He tells me.

I shake my head. "What if it's not. What if I am..." I can't say it.

"Then that's ok, but we'll handle that when it comes to it." He kisses my forehead. "I'll be back in a minute." He says. I give a simple nod before he walks away from me, leaving the room.

I stare out of the window wall, loving over the City that's busy bustling around with the mid morning rush. The sky is a crisp blue with fluffy white clouds scattered.

A warm hand comes to my shoulder drawing me back into the room. Dominic stands off to my side, holdingĀ  a tall glass of water. "Here." He says in a kind voice.

I take the glass from him, looking at it as if it were an alien before I forced myself to down the whole glass. I set the, now, empty glass on my bedside table and see a fresh brew of tea sitting there.

Dominic sits down on the bed next to me. "Do you want to talk about..."

"Not yet." I cut him off.

We settle on sitting in silence for a while.

I pick up the tea and start slowly drinking it, the taste mildly relaxing me.

The urge to urinate finally comes and I look at Dominic with a scared look on my face. "I don't think I can do it."

Dominic nods. "I know you're scared. But all you have to do is pee and I'll handle the rest. Ok?"

"Ok." I whisper reluctant. I stand from the bed after another few minutes of procrastinating.

Dominic stands from the bed too and walks over to my desk where a pharmacy bag I hadn't noticed before is set. He pulls out a box of pregnancy tests, unwraps the box from its plastic film and pulls out two foil wrapped tests and hands them to me. "These ones are digital ones that will tell us how far along you are, if you are, or it'll tell us you're not." He tells me.

The way I hold the foil wrapped sticks is like they're burning rods. I gulp before turning away from him and walking into the bathroom without another word, shutting the door behind me.

I unwrap the two tests, disposing their foil wrapping into the trash before uncaping them. I sit down on the toilet and hold one test in the stream at a time, caping them again once both are done and set them on the bathroom counter.

After finishing in the bathroom, leaving the tests on the counter, and reenter the bedroom.

DominicĀ  stands from the bed and walks over to me. He wraps his arms around me tightly holding me against him. He kisses the top of my head. "How do you feel?" Dominic asks.

"Scared." I tell him truthfully.

Dominic nods. "I know. No matter what happens though, it will all be ok."

"Are you not scared?" I ask him, lifting my head up to look him in the eye.

Dominic sighs. "Of course I am. I never expected this to happen so soon, but que sera, sera."

I nod. "How long does it take?"

Dominic checks his watch. "It should be done by now. Go sit down and I'll go check it."

I nod again and move around him to head towards the bed.

Dominic grabs my arm, spinning me back to him. His lips crash into mine. Dominic releases me after a long heated kiss.

I sigh and turn away from him, moving to sit on the bed facing the bathroom.

Dominic enters the bathroom and emerges again ten seconds later holding both the tests in on of his hands, his eyes glued to them as he studies them.


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