Divorced for Being Barren, I Came Back Pregnant by His Rival novel · Chapter 11 of 24
Chapter 11: Four Weeks
Eliot threw up in the lab sink for the third morning in a row.
"It's the coffee," he said, to the faucet.
"It's not the coffee," said the lab tech behind him, with great tact, and left the room.
Four weeks had gone by since the heat.
The judge had thrown out Auchincloss's injunction in nine minutes.
Audra had set the sealed notebooks and the Columbia lab stamps in front of the bench and asked who had signed the prior art.
The rest of the month had been work.
A new process, a long fight with a supplier, and every night, August's bed.
Eliot rinsed his mouth.
He pressed a hand flat to his stomach, below the navel, where nothing showed at all.
He knew.
He had known since the sixth day, in some part of him older than reason.
He had not said it aloud, because saying it aloud had always been the way to lose a thing.
"Let's go to the clinic," August said from the door.
He had been standing there for a while, in his shirtsleeves, with his keys in his hand.
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