I just stayed quiet. I didn’t want to say anything that would make her feel bad again. We could talk about it all a little more in the next few weeks. I would be happy to help out where she wanted me to be. Hell, I liked the idea of having us be together and raising the babies together. The only reason I had brought up the statement that they were hers was because of how the pregnancy had started. She didn’t want a baby daddy. Julia didn’t want anyone telling her what to do or how to raise her babies and I was just trying to follow along with that and be supportive.
Of course, I did see how that might have changed for her over the past few weeks since we had been spending so much time together. It was more like a relationship than our situation had ever been. We should have talked about it before dinner. I should have asked her how we were going to explain things. It was all my fault. I took full responsibility, well I would after dinner was done and the two of us were able to have a good conversation.
“Have you decided on your birth plan?” Mary asked Julia.
“I’m just going to the hospital and letting Doctor Simon do his thing. My biggest fear is that I’ll have to have a c-section. I just don’t want to go through that recovery and have the babies at home. That sounds really hard.”
“Maybe your mom could come stay with you?”
“That wouldn’t be helpful,” Julia laughed.
“I know what you mean, that’s why I had my sister. But start working on lining up your help for those first couple of months. You’ll need to get some sleep so you have to have a few extra sets of hands. Even with Nathan, we still had two or three people at our house helping us out at times. These little ones require a lot of time and attention.”
“I’m a shit,” I whispered to Nathan as the women talked.
“You’re in shit, that’s for sure,” Nathan laughed.
“Maybe I could help out?” I said to the ladies as they talked.
“No, I wouldn’t want to force you to help care for MY children,” Julia said with a stare that looked like she could have killed me.
“Yeah, you’re in trouble,” Nathan leaned over and whispered.
For the rest of the dinner I did the best I could to lay low. I laughed at the jokes Mary told and tried to appear sympathetic to the plight of the pregnant woman, but the whole time all I could think about was that I needed to talk to Julia in private, so we could straighten this whole thing out. Certainly, I wanted to help with the babies. I wanted to keep seeing Julia. And I wanted to be part of her life and their lives; we just had to figure out how that was all going to work.
When dinner was over, and we finished saying our goodbye’s, I helped Julia into our Uber and tried to hold her hand while we pulled away. She yanked it away from me though. She was upset and I had done this to her.
“I’m sorry. I thought you wanted to do this alone. Tell me what you want.”
“You’re right. I do want to do this alone. It’s okay. I’m just emotional,” she said suddenly softening up a little. “We can figure it all out later. I was just caught off guard and a little embarrassed.”
“I’m sorry.”
“If you want to be involved in their life and my life you can. If you don’t want to be you don’t have to be. I did this for myself and I was the one who wanted to have the babies. I understand if you want to move on with your life and not be a co-parent.”
“I didn’t mean…” she interrupted me by grabbing my cock and rubbing it hard right there in the back of our Uber.
“Did you mean it when you asked me what I want?” she asked.
Julia looked like a woman who had been possessed by hormones as she eyed me like a piece of meat. We definitely needed to talk more about everything that was going on but at this point I was pretty sure I needed to give her a few orgasms to calm this lust that had taken over her body.
If I wasn’t a physician the rapid change in her emotions would have worried me much more than it did. But I knew she was using sex as a coping mechanism for all the emotions that were going on inside of her. I also knew that trying to talk about it at that moment would be a very bad idea. She had primal needs that needed met before we would ever be able to flesh out how much parenting involvement I was going to have.
When we got back to her apartment she practically threw me on the bed as we walked into the bedroom. She had her own clothes stripped off long before I was able to get mine off. And she was climbing on top of me before I even managed to get my pants all the way off.
She slid onto my throbbing cock and rode me so hard I thought for sure she was going to break me in half. She was a beast as she pressed into my chest and thrust her hips against me and I fucking loved every minute of it. Watching her beautifully round body on top of me was a sexual turn on that I wouldn’t forget any time soon. Making love to Julia throughout her pregnancy was much more erotic than I’d imagined.
My patients often talked about how turned on they were all the time or how they couldn’t get enough of their man during the pregnancy. Seeing it first hand with Julia was a treat for me. I was lucky to be there with her and wished I wouldn’t have made her feel so bad at dinner.
“Grab my nipples,” Julia suddenly ordered of me. “Hard.”
I did as I was told and squeezed both of her nipples as she moved faster and faster against me. She yelled out with pleasure and I throbbed with lust. It took everything I could muster not to cum right then and there, but I didn’t want to have the wrath of my primal woman turn on me.
Her fingers dug in and I thought for sure she was about to release when she jumped up off of me. She moved to the side of the bed and bent over. She motioned for me to get behind her and I dutifully did as she asked.
My hand rested on her soft ass as I slid into her. Slowly, gently, I moved as I enjoyed every moment of being inside of Julia. Her head was on the bed and she moaned with pleasure with each of my thrusts. It was a huge turn on to see her so engrossed in the pleasure of the moment. I grabbed her hips as my thrusts got deeper and she pressed hard back against me. There was no way I could hold back any longer. I had to feel the sweet release of letting go as I thrust hard a few more times and then finally couldn’t handle it another second.
I came hard inside Julia and she pressed back against me with delight at the explosion. We both crawled back up onto the bed and I knew right away that Julia wasn’t finished with her own primal explosion.
Her hands played with my exhausted body. She teased me and was already working to see if she could get me excited again. Oh no, that wasn’t about to happen so fast; I knew my body well enough to know that.
I also knew that she wasn’t going to stop until I had utterly satisfied her needs. So I pressed her back onto the bed and let my fingers touch her softly.
“Yes,” she groaned as I played with her.
Julia pulled me down to kiss her while I played. It was exciting to have her in my mouth while my fingers played with her wetness. I titillated her clit and rubbed on her in every direction as I worked up her excitement.
When I finally slipped inside her Julia grabbed my lip and bit down on it as she thrust her hips toward me. I was pretty sure she’d drawn blood with that lustful move but I didn’t care.
I stroked in small circles, feeling her body react to my fingers. Feeling the excitement growing more and more for her. She was getting close and I knew what I needed to do to help bring her over the edge.
Slipping away from the delicious taste of her lips. I kissed down her body taking my time to suck on each of her nipples for a just a moment. I then moved over her sweet belly and touched the right and left sides with my kisses for the babies growing inside of her.
When I made it to her center, she was dripping with pleasure and I took her in clit and held onto it. My fingers stroked hard and deep as Julia grabbed the sheets and propelled her clit farther into my mouth.
Then it happened, the sweet release that Julia had been dying for. Her whole body tensed up and her back arched. I did
n’t stop doing what I was doing but continued on in an effort to prolong her pleasure as much as possible.
“Yes, she moaned, “fuck, yes,” she finally fell back to the bed in total exhaustion.
I moved up beside Julia and put her head on my chest as we wrapped up in each other’s arms. For weeks we had been making love and hanging out together. It had been the best time I’d had in a very long time. I was so happy to have her there. So excited to see what the future might have in store for the two of us.
“Are you thirsty? Do you want me to grab you a drink?” I offered.
“Sure,” she said as she rolled off of me and curled up on her side of the bed.
I hurried into the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge and placed it on Julia’s side of the bed. I was just about to get back into my side when she sat up and looked at me with tears in her eyes.
“I think you should sleep at your place tonight,” she said looking so utterly sad that I didn’t know what to say or do.
We’d just made love for an hour. She’d been so into it. We were both into it. What had happened? What had gone wrong? Was this just a burst of hormones? I didn’t want to leave her there like that. I couldn’t leave her in that state.
“Honey, what’s the matter? We should talk. You don’t want to go to bed upset.”
“I’m tired. We can talk another time.”
“Julia, is it about that crack I made at dinner? I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it. We should talk about it. I want to be here for you if you want me here.”
“But you don’t want to be here, so let’s not worry about it. I will abide by the contract. I’ll make sure you get your yearly cards and a visit if you want to.”
“Julia, I know you’re hurt, but we have time to talk this through. I’m going to go because I don’t want to make this more of a thing than it needs to be. But I’m open to being a part of this if that’s what you want.”
“Again with what I want? When are you going to step up and tell me what you want? What about saying that you want to be part of my life, of the babies lives? Just go,” she said as the tears rolled down her face. “Just go.”
As much as I wanted to explain my position, it just wasn’t the right time. Julia was clearly very emotional and she had to be exhausted after all that we had just done in bed. I decided to leave and give her some space. We had weeks to work through this before the babies arrived and I was certain we would come to a solution once we were both able to have time to think about it.
“I’m going to go, but I want to talk more about this later.”
I leaned down and tried to give her a kiss but she turned away and I was only able to kiss her cheek. For a moment I stood in the doorway of her apartment contemplating not leaving at all. I thought about sitting in the living room and just waiting for the morning so we could talk, but I decided to do as she asked and I left.
All the way up to my apartment I felt sick to my stomach. Julia meant a lot to me. She was important to me. I didn’t want to lose her. I wanted to be in her life. This was all just a big miscommunication and I was sure we could straighten it out.
I didn’t sleep much at all that evening and had to go to work the next day. I tried stopping by to see Julia before I left but decided not to wake her up. Instead, I send a text message, hoping that it would calm her nerves a little.
MIKE: Julia, I care about you a lot and I would like us to sit down and talk soon.
At work I went about the day as normal seeing patients and dealing with our business troubles. Both Bruce and Sheryl noticed I wasn’t myself that day but I wasn’t in the mood to talk with them about what was going on either. It was more of a self reflection sort of day as I figured out what I wanted in this relationship and how that was going to look for me.
“Hey, hospital just called. We have an emergency patient in there,” Bruce said.
“Who?”
“No name yet. I’m waiting for a call back. Is it your turn or mine?”
“Let’s see who the patient is,” I said as we waited for the call back.
I had a few patients that were getting close to full term and I knew Bruce had a couple that were past their due date. Either one of us could be the lucky doctor who was going to be up all night long delivering a baby.
The phone rang and the look on Bruce’s face told me that something was wrong. He was not longer smiling or light hearted at all. Instead, he was serious and took some notes as the person on the other end talked.
“Yes, get her stabilized and I’ll be right there,” he said and then hung up. “It’s Julia.”
My heart sank. She was still very early along. She had two months before her due date. There were so many things that could go wrong at this point. So many things that could go wrong with her and with the babies.
“I’ll take care of things here,” Sheryl said as she motioned for the two of us to get out of there.
It was the middle of the day and we would have to cancel all the patients for the rest of the day. But at this point I didn’t care and I could tell Bruce didn’t either. He knew how important Julia was to me. She wasn’t just his patient. She was a friend now and we rushed to the hospital as quickly as we could.
Chapter 19
Julia
At first I wasn’t sure what was going on. I was having some major cramps but thought my night with Mike had brought them on. I’d orgasmed pretty hard with him and certainly believed my body was just reacting to that.
But as the contractions continued and got worse, I knew something else was going on. I’d read all about Braxton Hicks contractions and how a lot of women had them when they were as far along as I was. I called the doctor’s office and made an appointment to go see Doctor Simon later that afternoon. The problem was, I definitely wasn’t going to make it to that appointment.
I tried walking around to relief the pain from the contractions but soon I realized I was in full labor. I was pacing around my condo and the contractions were hitting exactly five minutes apart. That was when the panic set in. What was I supposed to do? Just go to the hospital on my own? I could barely walk, there was no way I could get myself there.
“Kendra,” I said as I put her on speaker phone. “I’m in labor. I need you to help me get to the hospital.”
“I can’t. I just landed in Vegas with Sarah, remember?”
“No!” I had totally forgot they were going away for that trip. “What do I do?”
“Call Mike,” Sarah said as I was put on speaker.
“No, he doesn’t want to be involved. I need to do this on my own. What do I do? I’m so scared, guys.”
“Just call him, Julia. He will make sure you are safe,” Kendra said.
“Okay,” I said in order to deal with the contraction that was building up. “I’ll let you guys know how it goes.”
“Wait, aren’t you too early?” Sarah asked. “You better get to the hospital right now. This is way too early. You go right now. Just go downstairs and the staff will get you there.”
“Okay,” I grunted through my contraction and hung up on my friends.
This was it. I had to be the independent woman that I kept saying I was. I didn’t have a hospital bag or anything like that ready yet so I just grabbed my purse and slipped my sandals on my feet.
I waited for a contraction to end and then hurried to the elevator and down to the lobby. But by the time I reached the lobby I was already having another contraction. They were coming much quickly than every five minutes and I was terrified that I was going to lose the babies.
“I think I need an ambulance,” I grunted from the elevator as I leaned against the doors and breathed through the contraction.
“Shit, yes ma’am,” the young man at the front desk said as he dialed his phone.
“Can you help me to the chair?” I asked.
“He had the phone on his ear and hurried over to me to help me while he was giving the 911 operator directions to our building and which ent
rance to use. Luckily, the building was really easy to find and the ambulance was there in less than five minutes.
“How far along are you?” the paramedic asked.
“Thirty-one weeks,” I said through another contractions. “I’m having twins though.”
“Okay, let’s get you to the hospital. Is there a doctor we can call?”
“Yes, Doctor Simon at Reproductive Medicine Associates.”
The paramedics got me onto the gurney and began taking my vitals before we even left the lobby of the condo building. I couldn’t figure out why they weren’t just rushing me into their vehicle and to the hospital.
One of them was attending to my vitals while the other strapped me in and then started listening to hear if the babies were okay. He seemed pleased with what he heard but the woman who was working on me wasn’t as happy with what she saw.
“It’s elevated,” she said looking at her partner. “We need to get her OB on the line.”
They hurried me out to the ambulance and to my hospital. The driver was on the line with dispatch who was communicating all the details that the paramedics were giving them about my condition.
From what I could gather my blood pressure was elevated enough that it was a concern for them. But I was in the middle of labor so they had to assume there would be a little spike in my blood pressure during such a physical event.
“Approval on the injection,” the driver said to one of the paramedics.
By this time I already had an IV line in me and the paramedic had medication waiting to shoot into it. Normally I would have had tons of questions about a medication that was being shot into my veins but in that moment I was in so much pain that I didn’t care what they were doing. All I wanted was to get to the hospital and make sure the babies were okay.
When we pulled into the emergency room a handful of people came out to help take care of me. There was a doctor there in a set of scrubs, but it wasn’t Doctor Simon. Although I was worried about having my doctor there I also knew that at this point I was going to be delivering these babies with whatever doctor happened to be on hand.
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