The Clinic Swapped My Donor, So a Billionaire Alpha Fathered My Baby novel · Chapter 12 of 24

Chapter 12: Stay in the Car

At twenty-three weeks I was still working nights, and Anselm still drove me.

He did it without complaint and without a driver, in the black car, with the heater on for my feet.

On the Thursday that mattered he parked on the lower level of the hospice garage, in the bay nearest the elevator.

He turned off the engine.

"I'll walk you up," he said.

"You won't," I said.

"Marit," he said.

"It's a hospice, not a fortress. Last time you walked me in, the whole night staff asked if you were the father, and the one who asked first brought you a muffin."

"It was a good muffin."

"Stay in the car," I said.

I meant it.

I was tired and I wanted an hour of my own face in the world.

I said it in the voice I'd use on anyone who was crowding me.

I felt the meaning leave my mouth.

I saw his hands settle on the wheel.

"I'll be here," he said, and his voice was strange.

I was already out of the car with my bag over my shoulder and my keys in my fist.

I walked off across the concrete without looking back.

I've gone over that moment a hundred times since.

The garage was nearly empty.

Fluorescent lights buzzed.

A concrete pillar stood between me and the elevator, and I had nearly reached it when I smelled them.

Two of them, lean and wiry, smelling of wet dog and cheap soap.

One came out from behind the pillar, and the other from behind a van, and they were both in grey hoodies with the hoods up.

"Marit Falkner," said the nearer one. "Gunnar wants a word."

I ran.

I got three strides before the second one had my arm.

His grip was brutal, and he wrenched me round against the pillar so hard that the back of my head cracked on the concrete.

The garage tilted.

"Don't," I said. "I'm pregnant."

"We know, sweetheart," he said.

"Let go," I said.

"Gunnar says you're going to walk out of here with us nicely, and no one needs to get hurt."

He put his forearm across my chest to hold me, and his partner reached for my bag.

Behind them, very far off, I heard a car horn.

It went on and on.

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