Piper hated that her sister couldn’t carry a child, and no matter what anyone said, she thought she could. She knew that it was hard to accept something you didn’t want to believe was true. This couldn’t be good for her body.
“I need you to come get Ally for me for the next couple of days. I need a D and C to get the fetus out and then I am going in to have my tubes tied. I’m done, Piper. I can’t do this anymore.”
Oh, thank God.
“Okay, that’s fine.”
“Can you come get her tomorrow?”
“What time? I have to go help Reese tomorrow at nine.”
“My surgery is at one, but I gotta be there at ten. I’ll ask Elli to come over and get her,” she said with another sniffle.
“No, that’s okay. I’ll have Erik keep her while I’m with Reese.”
“Oh, okay. I forgot about him.”
Piper ignored that and said, “Okay, I’ll see you tomorrow; everything is going to be okay. I’m so sorry.”
“Thanks Piper, bye.”
As Piper hung up the phone relief filled her. She was sad for Harper, but she was glad she finally realized trying to get pregnant wasn’t good for her, physically or mentally.
“What’s wrong?” Erik asked.
Piper glanced up from her phone. “Harper had another miscarriage.”
“That sucks. Is she okay?”
Piper shook her head. “Not really; she is having surgery to tie her tubes tomorrow. She isn’t going to try anymore.”
“So we are keeping Ally?”
“Yeah, if you don’t mind, can you keep her tomorrow while I help Reese out?” she asked, pulling out her phone to send an email to Emmaline to let her know that she might be late sending chapter 10 since she would have Ally.
“What are you doing with Reese?”
Piper looked up. “She needs help with some choreography. The same thing I did last time.”
Erik let out a frustrated breath. “Piper, you can hardly shop without your back hurting and you want to dance?”
“I’ll manage,” she said simply.
“No, I don’t want you to. You need to take it easy. Reese will figure it out and I don’t understand why you have to keep Ally when my brother lives there, too. He could watch his own kid.”
“They are my sisters and I like to help out when they ask.”
“I understand that, sweetheart, but you have a lot going on. Our baby is coming. You have a book and a nursery to finish before that. I’ll call Jakob, tell him to keep Ally, and then you tell Reese that you can’t help anymore.”
“Erik, I am fine I can do everything.”
Erik shook his head. “No, you can’t. Please, humor me here. You won’t worry about yourself because you are worrying about everyone else. I worry about you, so please help me keep my mind at ease.”
Piper blinked, confused. Maybe he was right; she did have a lot going on. If she wanted him to trust her then she needed to show him she trusted him, too, even if she’d rather do what she wanted. She was a busy person, always helping out when people needed her. It was in her nature, but Erik was right, her back had been bothering her. She had actually been dreading dancing tomorrow because she knew she would be off her ass for the rest of the week.
With a nod, she said, “Okay.”
Chapter 19
“So what are we doing here?”
Erik glanced over at Piper and waited for her to answer. He wasn’t a fan of doctors’ offices and he’d much rather be at home, laid up on the couch. Piper looked over at him from the magazine she held and smiled.
“They are just checking me out, making sure our little man is okay.”
“Okay,” he said, leaning back in the chair. After all, they did need to know the baby was okay. Reaching for his phone, he started to play Angry Birds as they waited. Thankfully, he didn’t have to wait long and soon Piper’s name was being called. Piper put her magazine on the side table and stood as Erik followed behind her.
“Hey Piper, how are you?”
Wait, he remembered that voice.
A bad feeling came over him as he looked up and discovered why. Dread filled him as he locked eyes with Piper’s nurse. Erik never forgot where he put his dick and it had been way down the throat of Piper’s nurse. Christina was in the room when Piper came to tell Erik she was pregnant.
What a coincidence.
Christina looked up at him and her eyes went wide with recognition before they refocused in a glare. “Erik?”
Piper looked back at Erik, and then at Christina. “You know my husband?”
Christina’s glare deepened.
“Your husband?” she said with a nod as she moved to the scale. “Yeah, I know him.”