Page 24 of Twin Surprise for the Italian Doc
CHAPTER FIVE
ITCOULDN’TREMAINa secret.
If it was a singleton pregnancy, she could probably have kept her situation private for months and passed off any new roundness in her belly and breasts as a bit of weight gain due to being slack with her healthy eating or exercise regime. But she had two babies growing inside her belly.
Two...
In a very short space of time—weeks at the most—Georgiaknew that the changes in her body were going to be blindingly obvious to the whole world.
So she might as well spill the beans now, yes?
No.
One look at the puzzled frown on Sean’s face as she re-joined her colleague, who had been waiting patiently for more than an hour, was enough to change her mind. The news would be like throwing a large stone into a pond. There were going to be big ripplesthat would affect other people as well. She could be taken off the road sooner rather than later and probably given some boring tasks that involved a lot of paperwork or time in storerooms. She would lose the joy of working with Sean on the road and the distraction that the variety and challenges of every job could provide. Being consigned to light duties would give her far too much time to think.About the future.
About the father of her babies...
This was a multiple pregnancy that carried higher risks for complications, she reminded herself, and she wasn’t even that close to the end of her first trimester. It might be unwise to throw that rock before it was absolutely necessary.
‘What is it?’ Sean demanded.
‘Nothing,’ Georgia told him airily. ‘I’m fine. Let’s go home.’
Sean startedthe ambulance a minute or two later but his sideways glance was suspicious.
‘I don’t believe you.’
‘I’m not sick, Sean.’ It was easy to sound convincing. Pregnancy wasn’t an illness. It was a perfectly normal state for a woman’s body to be in.
‘You look...different.’
‘Do I?’
‘Yeah...’ It took another couple of searching glances before Sean could identify what was puzzling him. ‘You look...I dunno...like you thought you had a terminal illness and you’ve been given the all-clear. Like you’ve won the lottery or something.’
Georgia’s response was a bubble of laughter.
‘You’re right. I’d started wondering if I had some horrible disease but I haven’t. I’m just...’
Pregnant.
‘Just a bit rundown. I’m going to live to be a hundred years old and I’m happy.’ She beamed at her partner.‘You should be happy, too. We’ll be working together until we’re old and grey.’
Sean laughed as well. ‘I’ll be grey by the time I’m thirty, working with you, champ. Don’t scare me like that again.’
* * *
It was fortunate that Kate was staying with Luke tonight, Georgia decided when she arrived home. She had never needed a bit of quiet time more than she did right now.
Snatches of her conversationwith Sean were still running through her mind. She had told him that she wasn’t sick and it was the truth because pregnancywasa completely normal state for a woman’s body to deal with.
Except it wasn’t normal forher, was it?
It was... It was...
Incredible...
She was going to have ababy. No...twobabies...
