“Morning Angie,” said Kevin as he came in the door.
“Hello Kevin,” she replied. “You have two appointments scheduled. I put the notes on the computer for you.
“Thanks. I could get use to this,” he said and went to his office.
Cal and Peter walked in just as Kevin headed down the hall. They waved to Angie and headed back to the loading dock. Angie waved and then started working to make the space her own. She set the stuff that she knew was Ginny’s on her desk and started to arrange things. The two women had chatted briefly about this at the dinner party. Between answering the phone, and moving things, time passed faster than Angie expected. The door opened and when she looked up, Ginny and Patrick entered the office.
“Morning Angie,” said Ginny and looked over at the reception area Angie was setting up. “Hey, this will do.”
“I put your vase over on your desk,” said Angie with a smile.
“Vase?” asked Ginny. She looked to where Angie pointed and then started to giggle. “Oh god. Those guys! Don’t know whether to kiss them or kill them,” she said.
“Just thank them. You can kiss me,” teased Patrick. “Besides, I like beef jerky.”
That made Ginny and Angie laugh. Patrick walked down to talk to Luc while the two women figured things out. The last thing he wanted to do was get in their way. He walked into Luc’s office and found him talking on the phone. He waved Patrick towards a chair.
“Yes, I understand. We’ll be out as soon as possible. No, no extra charge, but this time you need to make sure the password stays in secure hands. No, you can’t trust certain individuals. Yes. Goodbye,” Luc said into the phone.
“Oh boy, that sounds like a real winner of a client,” said Patrick.
“Special case. Business exec gave his piece of ass his password and now has an entire business system from the server on down with a virus and from the sounds of it, a root kit,” said Luc. “Oh, and he tried to blame us.”
“Some people shouldn’t be allowed anything more than pencils and paper,” said Patrick. That made both men laugh.
*
Meg was waiting in the exam room. She hated physicals. The room is always too cold to be sitting in a paper gown. She grabbed her sweater and put it over her shoulders. The door opened and Jeff walked in. He saw her wrapped in her sweater and frowned.
“It is cold in here isn’t it,” he said.
“Yes, exam rooms are always cold,” said Meg.
“Not all of them. Mine should be warm. Cold shifters shift. Stay here a second, and I’ll be right back,” he said. He disappeared out of the door and a second later Meg heard the heat kick on.
“That should be better. Monday morning hick-up. No one turned the heat on. Sorry about that,” he said. “Now if you’ll lay back, I’ll check you out.”
Meg laid back and put her feet in the stirrups. She stared up at the ceiling and started to giggle. On the ceiling were pin-ups of good looking men and one in the same position she was with a look of horror on his face.
“So, you like the pictures?” Jeff asked as he checked her out.
“Yeah, that’s pretty good. Much better than counting holes in the acoustic tile. So Doc, am I pregnant?” she asked.
“Yes and we have one last test to do,” he said. With that, he stood up and went over to another machine. He grabbed a paddle and a bottle of gel.
“What is that?” Meg asked.
“Ultrasound,” said Jeff.
“Don’t I have to have a full bladder or something?” she asked.
“Normally, but I’m not looking for sex or details. I’m looking for heartbeats,” said Jeff as he lifted her gown, smeared her stomach with gel and put the paddle on top of the gel.
“Heartbeats? Not heartbeat?” said Meg.
“Your hormone levels are a bit high for a single baby. So, I’m looking for heartbeats,” Jeff said.
“Twins? You think I’m pregnant with twins?” said Meg a bit panicky.
“Settle down, lots of women have twins,” he said. “Hold still.” He moved the paddle to the left a little. “Yes, there it is!” Jeff said with a smile. He pointed at the black and white image and two flutters on the screen. “Two heartbeats Meg. Congratulations.”
“Oh boy… puppies,” she said with a bit of sarcasm.
Jeff just smiled. “Could be worse. Could be quads or more like a real canine,” he teased.
Meg blew raspberries at him as he wiped the gel off of her stomach. “Luc will be over the moon literally for the next week,” she sighed.
“Yes, and now we know why he’s been so protective of you too. His wolf probably knew and just didn’t communicate it,” said Jeff.
“Oh shit, I didn’t think of that,” said Meg. “Can I get dressed?”
“Yes. Martha will have some prescriptions for you for vitamins and such,” he said.
“Huh? Won’t the ones I take now be okay?” asked Meg.
“Maybe. Shifters tend to need more and pregnancy really drains a woman. I like to err on the side of caution. Martha will have some other information for you too,” said Jeff.
“Okay,” said Meg as she got dressed. “Oh boy will this rock Luc’s world.” she thought. Once she was dressed, she went out and got the information and prescriptions from Martha.
*
Meg drove up to the office and saw Patrick’s Subaru in the parking lot. “Good, I can tell most of them all at once,” she thought. She grabbed her briefcase and headed into the office.
“Hello Angie,” she said as she got into the office. “Hi Ginny, where’s the guys?” Meg asked.
“Down in Luc’s office. They ran away from the estrogen out here,” said Ginny.
“Okay, let’s join them. You too Angie,” said Meg with a wicked smile on her face.
“What are you up to?” asked Angie.
“You’ll just have to wait a minute,” said Meg as they headed to Luc’s office. She walked in and saw that Luc was talking on the phone. What she didn’t know is that he’d been on the phone for the last twenty minutes. Every time he hung up, it rang again. Patrick was sitting back munching on a piece of jerky and trying not to laugh.