Total pages in book: 331
Estimated words: 315585 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1578(@200wpm)___ 1262(@250wpm)___ 1052(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 315585 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1578(@200wpm)___ 1262(@250wpm)___ 1052(@300wpm)
Devin sits behind his desk while Gavin pulls up a seat on the other side of me. “You’re scaring him.” I try to laugh it off as a joke, like my husband is the only one worried, but I am too.
“When Bill was finally able to get you out of Dollhouse, Gavin called me, asking about your records. They both knew you had been here at Carnage.” I nod and Devin continues. “But there were no records that I could find.”
“What does that mean?” Kashton asks.
“At the time, I just thought Garrett had them destroyed. But after lots of digging, I’ve been able to locate the records of when you were here. And I found you were seeing a doctor…” Devin trails off picking up a piece of paper on his desk. “Dr. Kelly Fran.”
I look at Kashton and then nod to Devin. “I’m not sure of her name. But, yes, I was forced to see a female doctor.”
“What were you seeing her for?” Gavin asks me.
I sigh and answer, “I don’t know.” He frowns, and I feel the need to explain.
“I—”
Kashton holds up his free hand, cutting me off. “Why are you asking her this if you have the records?” he snaps. “You tell us what my wife was seeing her for.”
“There are no records a Dr. Kelly Fran exists. That’s why we need to know what Eve remembers.”
Kashton huffs, and Gavin nods at me to continue. “Go on. What do you remember?”
“The first time Garrett took me to see her, she was here.” I gesture to the room. “The hospital at Carnage. I was probably sixteen.” The days all ran together, and I didn’t celebrate my birthday. “She seemed friendly enough, but I attacked her when she tried to touch me. My father choked me out, and when I woke up, I was back in my room.”
“How did you feel?” Gavin questions.
“Sore for a few days.”
“Sore where?”
“It…” I sigh. “It’s hard to explain.” My mind was foggy and my whole body hurt. Of course that could have been the fact that I was fighting her and my father choked me out.
“It’s okay,” Devin assures me. “Did you ever see her again?”
I nod. “Yes. The next time Garrett escorted me to the room, he ordered me to get naked and lie on the table. I noticed it had restraints on it that time, unlike the first.”
Gavin nods and looks over the papers on the desk. “Keep going.”
“She, uh, tied me to the table and started an IV…whatever she gave me made everything foggy. I fell asleep.” I shrug it off to keep from alarming my husband. “It happened quite often after that.”
Kashton looks away, but I can see his jaw ticking at my confession.
“Every time I would wake up in my room. I’d be sore for a couple of days, but it was nothing I couldn’t tolerate.” I look back at Devin. “Garrett never explained why or who she was. Just that it was required for me to see her.”
He nods and looks at Gavin.
“What the fuck is that about?” Kashton demands, leaning forward, and I give his hand holding mine a reassuring squeeze. “Tell us what you know.”
“Oocyte retrieval,” Gavin says.
Kashton sighs. “Speak in terms I understand.” He’s on edge after what I said happened to me. I understand, but it’s no reason to be mad at them. Devin never hurt me. If I ever needed to see a doctor, our fathers made sure it was someone else that came by. I think they were afraid that Devin would let my presence here slip to one of the boys.
There’s still so much that I haven’t shared about my past. Mainly because I’ve blocked it out.
Devin places his folded hands on the table. “Oocyte retrieval, also known as egg retrieval, is a procedure performed where the woman’s eggs are retrieved from her ovaries. The patient is put under sedation. It’s why you don’t remember what happened.”
I sit up straighter, and so does Kashton.
“I don’t understand…” my husband says. “What are you implying?”
Devin gives me a soft smile. “Garrett had your eggs retrieved and froze them. With Kashton’s sperm and a surrogate, you two can have children of your own.”
Tears sting my eyes, and I try not to get excited, but this is what I want. To give him children. To be a mother to his kids.
“A surrogate?” Kashton goes on at my silence.
Gavin gets up and walks over to the door. Opening it up, Sin and Elli enter the room. Sin has his son strapped to his chest, and Elli is cradling their daughter.
Kashton stands and pulls me up with him. My hand is sweating in his, but he doesn’t seem to mind. “What’s going on?” he wonders.
Sin and Elli exchange a look, and she smiles when her husband starts to speak. “When I heard Devin say it wasn’t completely true that Adam said Eve couldn’t have children, I knew we had to do something. We’ve spoken to Saint and Haidyn,” Sin adds. “And we want to help you guys.”