Chapter 58: When trouble comes lurking

“Today is the doctor's appointment; I hope I don't have to tell you before you make yourself available,” Cecil spoke over the phone.

The result she showed him a month ago revealed that she was fifteen weeks pregnant. She was now eighteen weeks old, and she was beginning to show.

He had mixed feelings about it all. He had longed to be a father for the longest time, but the circumstances surrounding this weren’t what he wanted.

He wasn’t on the best terms with Cecil; he ended things and wanted it that way, but with a baby, he would never be free from her.

Cecil told him she was keeping it, and he had to get along with what the next couple of months would bring. He wanted to be involved in his son’s life and experience what it felt like to be a father. The decision to make was obvious. They would work out an understanding relationship until she gave birth to the child, and if the relationship they formed worked without major blowouts, then they would raise the baby together. If they