The Russian Billionaire’s Secret(49)

“For Christ’s sake give the girl a moment would you? Can’t you see that she’s upset?” Dr. Goldstein’s eyes widened.

“Of course, I’m sorry.” Albie rubbed his hand up and down Tami’s back before crouching down beside her.

“Hey…” he tried to see under her long curly hair to get a glimpse of her face. “Hey beautiful, don’t cry, okay? We can figure this out.” Tami shook her head.

“I thought I could do this on my own, I was sure I could but then THIS happened and now I just…I can’t. It’s only going to get harder from here and I…” she hiccupped between sobs, “I just can’t.” Albie pulled her to him.

“Listen, you can do anything, that’s why I like you.” Albie smiled at her, a large forced smile that made her laugh.

“But….what are we going to do?” She sniffled loudly as she lifted her head and brushed her hair from her face. “If I’m pregnant I mean…what are we going to do?” Her breath still came in jumpy starts as she stared at Albie hoping for a miracle answer. He shrugged.

“What can we do?” Tami wiped her eyes on the sleeves of her shirt leaving traces of mascara.

“I can’t…get rid of it.” She started to cry again and Albie leaned in and kissed her forehead. He felt guilty for even suggesting to Dr. Goldstein that he convince Tami to get rid of the baby.

“I would never ask you to.” Albie said as he sat down in his chair and turned it to face her. “What would you like to do? I know that this is about both of us, but right now, if this was just about you, what would you do?” Tami was silent for a moment as Albie reached down and took her hands between his.

“I would have the baby. I would do what I planned to do to begin with and be a single mom and I would have the baby.” She lifted her eyes to Albie who nodded.

“Then that’s what we do.” He felt his heart sink as he forced a smile for her. Sure, he hadn’t wanted just any woman to have his baby, but when that woman turned out to be Tami, things changed. Tami was so unlike anyone he had ever met and suddenly his daydreams of the possibility of a normal life were something within reach. At least they had been until she mentioned the words ‘single mom.’

“Miss Jones, I can assure you that we do have excellent doctors who can assist you should you rethink a termination.” Albie snapped his head around and glared at the doctor.

“She will NOT be terminating this pregnancy.” Dr. Goldstein shrank back in to his chair, a look of bewilderment on his face.

“I was simply stating that…” Albie glared at him again and he went silent.

“How about we get you home?” Albie rubbed Tami’s hands in his own and she nodded slowly. Getting to his feel he pulled Tami up and wrapped his arm around her waist. “And you?” He glared back to Dr. Goldstein, “you will be hearing from my attorney in the morning.”

Chapter 7

Positivity

Albie had been preoccupied with Tami for the past week. He had called her every day to check whether she had needed anything in hopes that she would fill him in on her pregnancy status. She had shared nothing so far and Albie was left wondering if she didn’t know anything yet or whether she simply wasn’t telling him. She had made it perfectly clear when he drove her home from the cryobank that she expected nothing from him. She had told him that she had been prepared to be a single mother and that is what she would do.

When Albie brought up her mini-meltdown in the doctor’s office she put it down to nothing more than frustration with the situation. Albie could see that it was more than that. As strong and hardheaded as Tami could be, he could see the fear in her eyes. He hadn’t pushed her though, rather tried to reassure her with a daily phone call that if she needed anything, he was there.

Albie had failed incredibly at being a successful business man over the last seven days, but he had – as Holmes said – ‘by the grace of God’ turned over a new leaf. The playboy was no longer bringing home his twentysomethings every night and it had been more than a week since he had hit the clubs.

At first, Holmes was sure that his young master was up to something, but after Albie’s numerous mentions of Tami, Holmes realized that perhaps something else was at work.

“Hey,” Albie smiled at the phone.

“Hey.” Tami answered.

“I was just calling to see how you were feeling?”

“Good, I’m…umm…I’m glad you called actually. I think we need to talk.” Albie could feel his stomach drop, as if the words weren’t bad enough, the tone of her voice made them worse.

“Okay…when?” There was a few moments of silence.

“Maybe tonight? Can you come to my place about seven? Do you remember how to get here?” Albie laughed nervously.

“Yeah, if I don’t then Holmes will.” Tami sighed in to the phone.

“Okay. I’ll see you then.”

“Wait…is everything okay?” Albie couldn’t help himself from asking, he knew from her voice that it wasn’t, but he wanted the reassurance from her that it was.

“We’ll talk later, okay?” Albie nodded.

“Okay.” Tami hung up the phone.

Tami sat on the toilet seat lid staring at the wand of the pregnancy test. There was still another week to go before her doctor had said that she could expect to see a result, but there it was, a digital “Pregnant”. She had double and triple checked it using all three tests from the pack and they had all said the same thing. She looked down at her slender flat belly and rubbed it with her hand.