Chapter 314
Chapter 314
“Everyone deserves kindness,” I explain to her. “Including you. I want you to know that there are no hard feelings. I know we haven’t gotten along during my time here, but I always respected you as a person and as a doctor. You’re a very good doctor and I always admired that.”
“What kind of game are you playing?”
“No game,” I tell her, frowning. “I promise. This is only an act of kindness because I don’t want us to hate each other. You might be Kylie’s best friend, but you’re my colleague and I respect you, Nancy. I hope we can get along in the future.”
She was quiet and for a moment, I don’t think she was going to respond. But then she does.
“Kylie has been weird lately. Like she isn’t interested in what I have to say. It’s quite annoying having a best friend who won’t listen…”
“I’m always here to listen if you need to vent about something,” I tell her.
“I don’t think it’s really anything you can help me with.”
“If it’s about Dr. Davis, I think he might like you,” I say with a shrug.
Her eyes shoot up and over at me; I can tell she’s shocked by my words, and I smile, stifling a laugh.
“What have you heard?” She asks quickly.
“Nothing much,” I admit. “It’s just a vibe. I keep telling him that he should come to talk to you. But he hasn’t yet. I would give him some time to come around. Sooner than later, he will come to you.”
She’s quiet for another moment longer as she processes what I had just said. I had shocked her with this act of kindness and with this information. I was hoping this would be enough to get her to trust me. I made a promise to Nancy in another timeline that I would do my best to get her to be my friend. She didn’t want to go through this life alone and she’s been very lonely. I understand that now. She tries to make everyone else miserable because she’s self-reflecting. She’s actually the miserable one. She never thought she was good enough for Dr. Davis, so when I came around, she was threatened by me.
She’s been jealous this entire time and I don’t want her to think I’m any threat to her. I want her to think of me as a friend. I want to be her friend.
“Do you think I should talk to him?” She asks, I can feel her nerves rising.
I shake my head.
“Let him come to you. It’ll be less intimidating that way. I’ll do my best to keep boosting you up to him though and convincing him to come to talk to you,” I assure her. “You don’t need to worry about it. if it’s meant to be, it will be.”
I already knew it was meant to be. Neither of them will find their true mates. Dr. Davis will choose Nancy as his mate and mark her. Once marked, they won’t be able to sense their real mates anymore. They still have plenty of time before they come together as one. I have faith that everything is going to work out in Nancy’s favor, even without Xander’s influence on our lands.
She nods as she processes what I had said to her. She looks at the cookies and grabs one. This makes me happy; this was the start of a friendship. I turn away and begin heading toward the elevator doors when I heard her voice from behind me.
“Hey, Molly?” She says, causing me to stop to turn back to her. “Thanks.”
Molly
5 months later.
I stare at myself in the mirror, and I don’t like what I’m seeing. I’m so round; I wobble like a penguin. My entire back is sore, and my legs hardly hold up my weight. My hair has gone completely flat and lifeless, my complexion is too fair, and I don’t look decent unless I wear a bunch of makeup.
I’m wearing a loose-fitting light pink dress with a pair of flats that look like ballet slippers because that’s the only thing that’ll fit my swollen feet.
“I’m so fa-t…” I whine as tears fill my eyes. My hormones were getting the best of me; I don’t remember feeling like this the first time I was pregnant.
“You’re not fa-t,” Theo says from behind me, wrapping his arms around me and peering at me through the mirror as well. “You’re pregnant and you’re beautiful.”
“I look like an ogre,” I complain as tears wash over my features. I was trying really hard not to cry because it was going to ruin my makeup. But my hormones wouldn’t allow me to not cry. Today out of all days was not the day to lose my shit.