Love's Second Chance (Second Chances #1)(53)

“Is this still considered the bad news?” I wondered. “Because nothing at this moment is going to be considered good for me.” I was caught off guard when Jason actually looked at me and smiled. How could he be smiling at a time like this?

“I think you might beg to differ once you hear all that I have to tell you.”

“What the hell is going on? Why are you smiling?” I demanded, looking back and forth from him to Jenna, totally confused. My heart was pounding out of my chest and my vision had begun to get blurry from being lightheaded. Gripping the arms of the chair, I waited expectantly to hear what Jason had to tell me next.

“Korinne,” he began and paused. He took a deep breath before finishing his sentence. “You’re pregnant.”

Those last two words were all I heard before the world went silent.





Chapter Twenty-One





“Korinne, wake up.” The voice sounded so far away, but close at the same time. Something cold touched my forehead and I flinched. The moment I did, the pain shot through my body.

“Oww,” I groaned. My tongue felt heavy and thick, and there was a spot on my forehead where the horrific throbbing was coming from. When I reached up to touch it, I noticed there was a bump there that hadn’t been there before. I could feel the world spinning around me and I hadn’t even opened my eyes yet.

“Open your eyes, care bear,” a voice said soothingly by my ear.

“Mom?”

“Yes, it’s me,” she answered.

I opened my eyes and saw that my mother and father were beside the bed. Looking around the room, I had no clue how I came to be in a hospital bed. “What happened?” I asked them.

My mother and father looked at each other, and then back to me. My father was the one who spoke. “Apparently, you took a nasty tumble and hit your head on Dr. Andrews’ desk. You’ve been out for five hours.”

It only took one second to remember why I had passed out. Running my hand over my stomach, my eyes went wide. Both of my parents smiled when I gazed back up at them with tear-filled eyes. “You both know?” I asked.

My mom nodded excitedly and cried, “Yes, we know. Jenna decided to tell the whole world because she was so happy. As soon as we walked in she told us. We were ecstatic when we found out we were going to be grandparents.”

Seeing her and my dad smile actually made me happy for a second, but then I remembered the bad news Jason had told me.

“They can’t take my kidney,” I told my parents anxiously. “We need to get Galen a kidney. Do you know if they have one or if he was put on the waiting list?”

“We don’t know, pumpkin, we haven’t heard anything yet, but you need to calm down and relax. You have someone else to think of now, too,” my father emphasized by looking down at my stomach.

My mother brushed the hair off of my forehead and smiled. “The doctors want to do an ultrasound to make sure the baby is okay. They were waiting for you to wake up.”

“When are they going to let me out of here? I want to see Galen.”

“Impatient as ever aren’t you, Ducky?” Jenna announced, coming through the door with Brady and Elizabeth behind her.

“I just want to see my husband,” I snapped impatiently.

“I see my brother got you knocked up. I believe heart-felt congratulations are in order.” Brady laughed.

I was taken aback by his joking, but Elizabeth barged in and took over. “Brady hush! That was really uncalled for to say it like that. I think you and Jenna also need to be getting busy, to give me more grandbabies.” She came to over to me and kissed me on the forehead. “Galen is going to be so happy when he finds out about the baby. Congratulations, my dear. Why didn’t you tell me you didn’t know if you could have kids or not? I wouldn’t have hounded you so much.”

My eyes roamed over to Jenna and she shied away sheepishly. “It wasn’t something I liked to discuss,” I informed her. “Jenna, you are all about revealing the secrets today, aren’t you?”

“I was excited,” she admitted. “Knowing you, you were going to stay passed out for forever and I couldn’t wait to share the good news. It was a blessing in this tragic situation. Everyone needed something good to come out of it.”

Hearing her say it like that it didn’t sound so bad. It all seemed surreal. I couldn’t believe there was actually a life growing inside of me, but what made my heart hurt was that my child might not ever get to meet their father. “Is there any news about a kidney for Galen? I know you are all happy for me and the baby, but I think we need to focus on getting Galen taken care of,” I pointed out to them.

Jenna came up to the bed and shook her head, grinning the whole time. “Well, Ducky, if you hadn’t passed out, you would have heard the rest of the good news that Jason wanted to tell you. However, it does happen to be bitter-sweet news.” Narrowing my eyes in question, she continued, “The good news is that they found a kidney for Galen.”

I screamed for joy as the happiness inside of my body blossomed to every fiber of my being. “That’s great news! He didn’t have to be put on the waiting list?” I asked, looking at everyone. They all seemed happy, but there was sadness in the air that I couldn’t place. “By the looks on your faces, I guess this is where you tell me the ‘bitter’ part of that news.”