ONE NIGHT WITH THE ALPHA

3

It’s been a month since I slept with a total stranger and rented an apartment with the money I stole from the stranger.

I was able to get a job at the café being a waitress and wait tables. Cleaning and serving customers.

It was a tiring job but I had to do it to make ends meet. I needed to make money for myself to take back my home which was collected from me by my ex-fiance and best friend. I promised myself that I would get things together and be back on my feet again.

I woke up feeling weak and tired, recently I haven’t been myself. I have been weak and mostly throwing up in the morning. It was exhausting and tiring.

This morning was extremely difficult for me to even get up from my bed, grabbing a thermometer from the drawer beside my bed and checking my temperature, I saw it was higher than normal temperature.

I knew I won’t be able to go to work today, I had to call my boss Harry because I was running temperature and I can’t make it to work if he can pardon me.

Grabbing my phone I called him and place the phone on my ear as it rang out

“Hello Rebecca, you should have been here ten minutes ago. What’s taking you so long?” Harry asked me.

“Harry I….” I didn’t finish my statement when he interrupted me.

“Rebecca what’s wrong and why are you sounding like this?” asked Harry

“I am running temperature and I am exhausted, I can’t stand up on my feet. Please pardon me, I won’t be able to come in today” I told him with a shaking voice.

“Have you gone to the hospital?”.

“No, not yet”. I told him.

“Where are you?” he asked me

“Home, on my bed” I answered him, trying to adjust the duvet cover on my body.

”Stay where you are, I am on my way,” he said before ending the call.

I knew Harry had feelings for me, but I wasn’t ready to give anybody my heart again. Once hurt was enough for me, I wasn’t ready for another heartbreak.

I need to heal completely before thinking of dating another person again, and I succeeded in getting over my ex, then I will be giving Harry a chance but for now, I don’t think I would be doing that.

The sound of my doorbell interrupted my thoughts as I gathered the duvet covers around my body and sluggishly walked to the door.

“Who goes there?” I asked the person through the closed door.

“It's Harry, open up,” he said, that was fast, he didn’t waste time in coming and I am sure he must have beat some traffic lights to get to me, I wonder what they will do to him when the situation has been taken control.

I unlocked the door to allow him in and he walked in panting hard, he must have climbed my stairs at a fast pace or even running.

He places his hand on my forehead to check my temperature.

“Damn Rebecca you are burning up, we are getting you to the hospital right now,” he said while lifting me from the ground in a bridal style as he closed the door behind him, locking it with the security lock before climbing down the stairs.

The drive to the hospital was a fast one. We were stopped by the traffic police twice but he told them his wife was sick and he needed to take her to the hospital before it got worse, he was given a speeding ticket and was told to go on.

When we got to the hospital, he hurriedly got out of his car and ran to my side to open the door for me and the moment I got out of the car I was swift into his hands once again and he hurried into the hospital, yelling for a doctor or a nurse to attend to me.

After a few minutes of waiting a doctor finally attended to me, Harry watched as they rolled me a way to do a test on me and when they were done I was admitted in a room with Harry beside me, holding my hands and assuring me that I would be fine.

The doctor walked into my room and Harry got up as the doctor approached my bed, mere looking at Hardy I could see he was worried about death. He would make a perfect boyfriend and husband to someone or me later but for now, I want to be alone, so I can forget about my fiance.

“What’s wrong with her?” asked Harry staring straight into the doctor's eyes

“The test results show some traces of Trophozoites forms of plasmodium falciparum seen (++)” the doctor said

Harry looked so much confused at the terms the doctor said, “Please you explain what you meant by that?” he asked him

“She has malaria double plus and also congratulations to the both of you”

“I am sorry what are you congratulating me for, you just said I had malaria double plus. Nothing good about it” I told him, confused about the congratulations.

“No not that, another test result shows your wife is four weeks pregnant”

“What!!!!!” both Harry and I screamed out

“Yeah that’s what your test is showing and I advise you to take it slow and you need lots of rest for both the baby and you. You can get discharged today and remember to rest, lots of rest” he said before heading out.

I sat there staring at the door where the door just passed through and I couldn’t accumulate what I heard, I was pregnant, pregnant.

How the f**k am I pregnant, I have been safe and I can’t remember when last I had s*x.

Then who am I pregn……

“f**k!!!!!! Oh s**t, Harry I am in deep trouble” I told Harry as I bite my fingernails

“What trouble and how come you are pregnant?” he asked me

“It’s a long story, a very long one,” I told him, then I told him everything that happened about my fiancé and then the one-night stand with someone I didn’t know which was a mistake and now I am pregnant for him.

“Oh my, what are you going to do about it?” he asked me

“I have to go back to Los Angeles and the casino, I met him, he said he is always a regular customer there. So I must definitely see him there and tell him about the baby” I told Harry

“I can take care of the baby Becca, you don’t have to go to him. Let me be responsible for the child, let me be the father. I can take full responsibility.” Harry said, holding my hands.

“I am sorry Harry, I can’t deny the father of his child,” I told him, removing his hands from mine

“Please can you take me home, I promise to come back to you when all of this is over,” I told him and he nodded his head?

I knew I was in deep trouble, how am I going to show up in the face after stealing his money and then telling him I am pregnant, he would think I am scum trying to take his money from him.

I am in deep trouble but I have to do it, I have to make sure he sees his child growing inside of me and be able to hold his or her hands when the child is being born.