Chapter 19

Ava’s POV

“Ava, promise me that you will get checked by the doctor today. If not, I will take you there myself.” Damien stared at me worriedly the next morning as I came out of the bathroom after throwing my heart out. I was still feeling nauseated upon seeing certain food.

And today it was seeing raw eggs. As I tried to make a simple breakfast of sandwiches for me and Damien before we left for work.

“I will go okay,” I replied annoyed because I was not loving this feeling of being unwell. I hated being sick.

“Phone Mrs. Fay to give you a sick leave, so that you can go right now,” Damien spoke worriedly while handing me the phone. I knew he would have called her himself, but he knew how I did not like it, having him interfere in my work.

“No, I can't, I am needed today for an important software project,” I replied, then walked over to help him with his tie.

“I promise I will go during lunchtime,” I continued my voice soft as I tried to persuade him.

“Fine,” He replied, finally giving in.

“Only because you look sexy in this,” He added with a look of mischief, his hands tracing the curvy outline of the black business skirt I was wearing.

“Hands off,” I replied, slapping those horny hands off because I did not want him ripping off my skirt to have his way with me. A quickie before work.

His amused laughter quickly filled the room.

Once at work, although worried too, I drowned myself in work.

“Ava, Mrs. Fay has called both of us to her office.” I stared at Lisa who had just come back. I nodded and stood up following her.

“Your contracts as interns here at Payne Enterprise are about to end,” Mrs. Fay first said to the two of us. I could feel my heart now beating as I wondered if I would no longer have a job soon enough.

“However, you two have become important assets to the I.T. department and therefore I am pleased to offer you both full-time positions.” As soon as she finished saying that, we both stared at each other, Lisa and me with delight-filled grins. Seems all our hard work was paying off.

Mrs. Fay then dismissed us and once outside we both shrieked in happiness, congratulating each other.

“We should definitely go out for drinks to celebrate!” Lisa first said excitedly, “I have to first do that check before I can drink,” I whispered, confiding in her.

“Oh! I will go with you during lunch to get one.” She quickly offered support making me give her a grateful look for being supportive. I was a nervous wreck as lunchtime came. We went and visited the pharmacy to buy pregnancy testers.

I crazily bought about five of them,

We went into the bathroom and the first one showed negative. But Lisa made me take another one. And I could feel my heart beating as it showed positive! In denial, I tried a third one. And it showed the same results too! By the time I tried the fourth and fifth I was already panicking.

“Take a deep breath,” Lisa said trying to calm me down.

Just like Damien I too was not ready for a baby! Heck, my career had only just started, and I was not even financially stable yet.

“How about a visit to the doctor? for a proper check out instead,” Lisa added, and I quickly nodded. Maybe these pregnancy tests were wrong and not working correctly.

Doctor Nia would have answers.

She was my personal Doctor here in New york.

To reassure me, she did another check on me.

“Miss Smith, all the tests say you are pregnant.” My eyes widened as she told me how long I was too.

“But I took the pill religiously,” I argued.

“It still has a 9% chance of failure and seems you were one of the victims. Also, I noticed that you were taking an antibiotic not prescribed by me. It too affected the pills from working.”

As she told me that, I quickly remembered how on one of our exotic weekend trips that Damien took me to. On some island, I caught the flu and was prescribed an antibiotic by the doctor there. And I had to take it for a whole week.

“But…” I whispered speechlessly realizing that there was no other way around this. I really was pregnant with Damien’s baby.

“What did the doctor say,” Lisa asked standing up worriedly from her seat in the waiting room.

“That it's true,” I whispered, still in shock. But then again what had I expected from all the sex we had been having with no condom.

This was the result.

It felt weird knowing I now had another being residing in my stomach.

I stared down at my stomach.

“It will be alright, and you can always, you know...abort.” Lisa said trying to comfort me, “No! I will not kill my baby.” I replied not even wanting to think about such a thing.

If my mother with her teenage pregnancy had done the same, I would never have been here. And I planned on not doing the same to my own child.

“Well then I cannot wait to be there helping with choosing baby clothes and everything,” Lisa replied,

“And you have to tell him, the baby daddy,” She continued, making my nerves go up again.

Thinking of how I was going to tell Damien about this. Would he be angry? or go along with it.

I had no idea.

“I'm scared Lisa, I do not know how he will react. This was my fault after all for not being careful.” I replied, “No to being like that. It takes two to tango. So do not feel guilty or anything just tell him,” Lisa replied, giving me strength.

“You...you do know that it's Damien right, the one who I'm dating,” I finally confessed.

“Oh girl, I already knew from the first day when I saw the way he could not take his eyes off you!” Lisa replied not looking surprised.

“I was only just waiting for you to confirm and tell me at the right time when ready. And girl I wish I was you, having a billion-dollar baby!” Lisa continued being dramatic and making me give her a teasing glare for calling my child a billion-dollar baby.

But I also wondered if Damien would think I was trying to trap him with a child to have his money.

And my fears were back again.

As soon as we arrived at the company, Lisa covered for me and encouraged me to go up there to his floor and tell him.

Taking a deep breath, I entered the elevator, and it went up to the highest floor in the building where Damien was.

My future was feeling so unclear right now.

As I walked in, Ben seemed to not be there by his assistant desk, so I continued to just walk ahead.

But as I neared the door, I heard voices it seems that Damien had some visitors right now. However, I ended up overhearing the most heartbreaking conversation ever.