I looked up to see her leaning against it.
“No,” I said looking back at my computer.
All thoughts of fucking her just for the release disappeared. Helen wasn’t horrendous to look at but she was clingy and constantly throwing herself at me. Nothing could have been more of a turn off.
When she didn’t leave I finally turned back to her, “Is there a patient ready?”
“No, done for the day,” she said with a sickly sweet smile.
“Good,” I said getting out of my chair. “Then I am out of here. Goodnight,” I ended without even looking her way as I passed her by in the door.
Six
Lilly
“Holy Fuck!” I said when Em picked up the phone.
“What? Was it your meeting thing? Did it go bad?” She asked from the other end of the phone.
I could make out the sound of something crinkling in the background.
“Those better not be chips. You promised you were going to go on this diet with me to help me lose the last of my baby weight.”
“Truth bomb my love,” she said as she crunched chips into the phone, “if you haven’t lost it yet, you might just be stuck with it.”
“Shut up,” I responded.
It wasn’t like I had blown up or anything. It was just this pesky extra thickness around my hips that never seemed to go away no matter how much I dieted.
“So what is the holy fuck about?” Em said ignoring me.
“You are never going to guess who I saw today, Dr. Barrett Harris.”
“Sounds hot. Was he your lady doctor? Did he rub you all nice,” she said sarcastically.
I didn’t answer because it was actually true.
“Holy Fuck,” Em took a turn saying now. “Did he rub you all nice?”
“No,” I winced back into my phone. “He was my doctor today at the appointment. But that isn’t what I meant.”
“Well then what?”
“He wasn’t just my super hunky gyno, I am also pretty sure that he is Aria’s biological father.”
“Seriously?” I heard Em spit her chips out at the other end of the line.
“I mean I don’t know for sure. But it looked like him. The guy did say he was going to be a doctor.”
“Did it feel like him?” Em asked.
“I am not answering that question,” I said.
I pulled up in the line of cars waiting to pick up kids from school. I looked at my watch. The bell would be ringing any minute and I would need to wrap up this call before Aria got here.
“So what happened when you told him? Did he remember you too?”
“Uh, no! I didn’t say anything to him. I got out of there as fast as I could.”