Forever with the Billionaire

Loukas POV

“She is pregnant! ” That announcement created an unsettling feeling inside of me. I thought that I heard the doctor wrong and decided to ask him again.

“What do you mean by she is pregnant? ” I asked the doctor yet again. “I am not sure you understand what’s going on. She can’t be pregnant.”

” But sir, ” the doctor tried to argue.

” Are you even a real doctor? ” That was a rude question because Doctor Mathias has always treated me ever since I got into the accident fourteen years ago.

“Excuse me? ” Doctor Mathias looked from me to Rotimi and heaved a sigh. “I have already done all the necessary tests and it has been confirmed that she is pregnant! ”

That word made my ear bleed. It sounded so foreign and annoying. ” She can’t be pregnant, ” I argued. “Redo the test! ”

” Calm down! ” Rotimi grabbed the Doctor’s hand and pulled his hand towards the door. “You should leave Doctor Mathias, ” he told him.

Doctor Mathias cleared his throat and bowed his head. “I believe my work here is done! ” He walked out of the room.

I ruffled my hair with my left hand as I stared into Hilary’s face. She was on my bed while I sat opposite her in my wheelchair. When she fainted in front of me, I thought that something bad had happened to her. My heart beat erratically and I could barely think. Before I could reach my phone, I had spent a few minutes using the wheeled walker as my supporter until I found my phone and called Rotimi. If I could walk perfectly then I would have been able to carry her myself. Rotimi had returned a few minutes later and with his help, he moved Hillary into my room.

It was at that moment that I felt pretty useless about myself and how I couldn’t help Hillary. Now that she was pregnant, I didn’t know how to react. “I. ” I rubbed my forehead.

“That was not cool, “Rotimi said as he walked back into the room. “You shouldn’t have acted like that.”

“What do you mean? ” I retorted. ” Don’t you understand what’s going on?”

“Hillary is pregnant, ” Rotimi said the words that I didn’t want to hear from him. ” You should be happy about this Loukas. Your wife is pregnant! ”

My wife? I laughed at that. Although I had grown fond of Hilary lately and the time we spent together was the best, our marriage was based on a sham. “You know that I can’t impregnate a woman because of my accident and now you think that I should be happy. ”

” What the hell is wrong with you Lou? When are you ever going to be happy with all the problems that are going on with you all? Why are you acting this way? ”

“I am the one in the wheelchair, not you! ” I yelled at him. ” You have no idea how it feels to be like this for fourteen years and now that I want to be happy, she is pregnant! ”

” That’s why you should be happy!”

I scoffed and shook my head in response. ” Happy? The doctor said…”

“Forget what the doctor said and focus on your future, Lou! You deserve to be happy and stop being like this!”

” I am not ready to have this conversation with you Rotimi. You have no idea how I am feeling at the moment, ” yes, that’s true. I felt angry and annoyed that Hillary was pregnant. If I truly was responsible for the pregnancy then how could I ever act like a father when I didn’t have a memory of my childhood?

“When will you have the conversation then? When Hillary has woken up or when you realize that your child is coming to this world!”

” I said that I didn’t want to have this conversation with you!” I yelled at him.

Rotimi didn’t look surprised because I had done much worse than that in the past but he laughed. He laughed at the misery and pain that I was feeling at that moment. Taking a deep breath, he turned to leave, slamming the door pretty loudly. I had expected him to say something but he just left unlike before when he would have tried to say something to change his mind.

“It didn’t matter!” I ran a hand through my hair and lowered my head.

“Loukas!” I heard Hillary’s name a few minutes later. “Loukas!” She called for me yet again and I raised my head to face her. Wheeling myself towards her, I grabbed her hand and placed it into mine. “What happened?” She tried to get up and when she was seated on the bed, she looked around her. “How did I get here and why am I in your room?”

Too many questions were asked and I didn’t know the one to answer. I had a lot of things going on in my mind and it created an unsettling feeling in my stomach. “You fainted,” I answered her first question. “Rotimi brought you in here and I had a doctor attend to you,” I did all I could to avoid her gaze.

” What is wrong? Am I terminally ill?” She asked but I shook my mind in response. “What’s going on with me?” She asked me yet again after a moment of silence.

I heaved a sigh and raised my head to face her. “You are pregnant Hillary!” I announced.

The shock on Hillary’s face was evident as she stared as if she had heard something wrong. That was not the reaction I expected from her but it was exactly how I felt when I heard that she was pregnant.

Shocked. That’s the right word.

“Is this the truth?” She asked and when I didn’t answer her, she gasped in shock. “But you said that you couldn’t procreate. How did this happen?”

” I should have asked you that.”

” What?” Hillary scoffed. ” Are you accusing me of cheating on you?” She asked but I gave her no response. She chuckled and placed a hand on her forehead. “You are funny! Loukas you are the only man that I have ever been with and aside from you, I haven’t been any other man. ”

I know that because she had been by my side ever since the beginning.

“Then how come you are pregnant!” I still couldn’t believe that I could get someone pregnant after the doctor confirmed. I know miracles happen but I didn’t believe that I could get someone pregnant overnight.

“You are seriously asking me that?” Hillary scoffed and jumped out of the bed. She groaned in pain and rubbed her forehead. “How are you talking like this when you know that you are the only man that I have ever been with!” She yelled at me. ” Do you think that I disappeared out of your sight and met with someone else!”

No response from me.

” Loukas, I am talking to you!” She yelled out my name. ” Why are you acting like I got myself pregnant?”

” Because I can’t father a child! The doctor confirmed it!” I retorted. ” I already told you that I can’t get you pregnant and you should have taken precautions when you know that this marriage is nothing but a sham. ”

” You say it easily as if all those times we spent together doesn’t matter to you or does it?” Tears trickled down her face as she tried hard not to cry in front of me. “This marriage was just a sham to you right?” She asked the question she already knew the answers to.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

I had told her from the beginning that the marriage was going to be nothing but a sham and even though our feelings got the best of us along the way, it was hard to believe that I could get a woman pregnant.

Don’t judge me but I believed that I couldn’t father a child and that was the truth. “You know better what this marriage meant Hillary! It was just a sham ”

Hillary burst into laughter and clapped her hands. ” What am I to you?” She asked.

Behind her laughter and toughness, she was hurting but faking it. She was in some much pain and it was evident in her tone and how she was talking. “Loukas!” She yelled. ”What am I to you? I’m just a fake wife who will warm your bed or the therapist you needed for your revenge or…” She paused and clicked her tongue. ” Your silence is the best answer to all of this. Now I know where I stand and just like you have said, this marriage was a sham but you need to know that I didn’t get myself pregnant and this baby is yours, not mine only!” She sniffled and turned to leave.

Do something Loukas, my inner voice shouted at me but I didn’t even know what I could do at that moment. The marriage was meant to be pure business and now, it’s on the verge of destruction when I haven’t gotten my revenge from my step Family.

“You know what Loukas,” she turned back to face me. “I’ll take care of the child myself. If you can’t man up and accept that this baby is yours then it’s your cup of tea. I’ve known you to be an egotistical jerk but I never thought of you to be someone that would abandon their child!” Hillary heaved a sigh and walked out of the room slamming the door on her way out.

Egotistical jerk? That was all I could think about. “Was that how she thought of me?” I scratched the back of my neck as I questioned myself. I didn’t want her to leave my side just yet, and I still couldn’t believe I was going to be a father.

It was surreal, and Hillary may have been correct. Maybe I was an egotistical jerk who only cared about himself.