Heath wasn’t there.
Chelsea was sitting in the waiting room in her doctor’s office, anxiously awaiting her turn to go back. This was the most important appointment she’d had up until now. She was about to find out whether or not her baby—their baby—was a boy or a girl. But Heath wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there because he couldn’t be. A wave of sadness washed over her as she tried to tune into what her mother was saying to her. Karen had insisted on coming to the doctor’s office with her to find out what the gender was.
Which meant that Heath couldn’t come along because her family still didn’t know he was the father.
It stung to know he was back at base anxiously awaiting her call. Up until this point, he’d come to every appointment with her, even though she’d insisted at first that it wa
