Chapter 213: Stomach Churning
"We’ll need the reports done before noon today," Amelia said, placing a file on Aiden’s desk at the office.
It hadn’t even been three days since she had gone to the hospital with Matteo to get his cheek swabbed.
Ever since then, Amelia had felt uncomfortable. It started off like a gnawing feeling in her chest that slowly migrated down to her stomach. Then, every morning after waking up and every time she thought of Emmeline’s possible test results, she would feel a wave of nausea creeping up her throat.
It only got worse and worse. Sometimes, medication she got from Dimitri through Isaac would work well enough to stamp down the feeling. Other times, modern medicine didn’t have a solution for it.
Ronan had suggested that it might be from the amount of stress Amelia had been going through of late. Frankly, she thought the same.
Emmeline had been oddly silent after that. According to Aiden, she had been staying at the Montgomery mansion as Catherine’s personal guest. The older woman had kept to her word― even if Emmeline was kicked out from the Hawthorne household, she would still be recognized as Catherine’s goddaughter. And left with nowhere else to go, she was to reside with the Montgomery family.
After all, the seed in her belly could be growing the next generation of Montgomerys. As a result, even Charles Montgomery had been exceptionally nice to her during her stay, much to Aiden’s regret.
"Noon?" Aiden whined. "That’s so soon. Let me just sleep an extra wink or two."
"You should’ve realized it was a working night," Amelia said. "It’s already Friday. You can sleep all you want after work when the weekends roll in."