Betrayed by My Husband, Taken by His Billionaire Uncle novel · Chapter 30 of 32
Chapter 30: Christmas Eve
"Yes," I said. "I'll come."
He walked me into the fourth floor of Queen City Fertility at eight that night with my hand in his.
The waiting room had a tree in it and a bar where the check-in desk usually was.
A hundred and twelve people turned around.
The coordinator dropped a shrimp.
The embryologist, out of her hair cover for once, raised her glass at me from across the room.
The woman with the reading glasses on the beaded chain just smiled, like she'd known since the hallway outside exam room two.
The nurse came straight through the crowd and hugged me.
"Every moment," she said in my ear. "I heard it worked."
"It worked."
August didn't let go of my hand for two hours.
He didn't make a speech.
He just introduced me, to every single person, as "Juliet," and let them look.
On Christmas Eve we drove to Eastover with Annabeth in the back seat of the Range Rover, holding a long box wrapped in newspaper.
"What is that?" I asked.
"It's a gift."
"It's shaped like a bat."
"It's shaped like a gift, Jules."
The housekeeper opened the door before we knocked and, for the first time ever, smiled at me.
The house smelled like ham and pine and gardenias.
Twelve of them, in a bowl on the hall table, the ones I'd brought Sunday.
Truman sat at the head of the table with his cane hooked on his chair and a paper crown from a cracker on his white hair.
"The loud one," he said when he saw Annabeth.
"Mr. Radford."
"Sit by me. I want to hear about the YouTube video."
She sat by him.
By dessert he'd made her show him the wrist move twice, on August.
"You're doing it wrong," Annabeth told August. "You're supposed to fall down."
"I'm a doctor. I know where my knee goes."
"Fall down, Dr. Thursday."
He fell down.
Truman laughed until he had to take his crown off and wipe his eyes with it.
After dinner we did presents by the fire in the study, under the mill.
Annabeth gave Truman the box.
It was a bat, aluminum, with a red bow on it.
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