Albert Pov
"How can a patient in a coma gets pregnant?" I found it absurd. "And if she gets pregnant why don't we abort it?" I hated to say it.
"But sir, regarding her case, since the insertion has been done, she might get pregnant even while in a coma. And we can't abort it since we don't know how well she is doing. She will have to wake up for that. And that means we will need her approval to get the baby aborted."
I'm beyond shock. The heck! I jerked from the hospital bed and started pacing around. What will I do?
"What should we do?" I screamed at the director.
"We should wait for her to awake. Before then we will know if she is pregnant." Director Thomas tried to make me relax but I couldn't.
"So if she gets pregnant when she wakes up what are we to tell her?" I started pacing around, trying to imagine the scene-
"Hey Eloise, you see when you were in a coma, we kinda mistook you for another patient and inserted a sperm inside you, shockingly you are pregnant, yeh what a surprise." I frowned at Thomas. "Who is going to want to hear that?"
I sat on the bed and placed my knees in-between my thighs. What do I do?
"I think you should relax."
"How? What if she wakes up before we can determine she is pregnant?" I yelled at him.
"It can't happen. She is going to be asleep for about three to four weeks and before then, we can determine if she is pregnant, then we can think about how to deal with the situation. For now, you should calm down."
He was right, there is nothing we can do until we know the results. I savaged my lips with my teeth. This is a mess.
Suddenly the door opened and Ellen walks in. One glance at her and I couldn't bear to look at her for another second. According to her file, she was doing it for the money and I had promised to help her secure a job in the United States as long as she delivers safely.
This is a mess.
"I've been waiting in the ward for the past seven hours, no doctor came. I was told there is an issue. I hope it's nothing serious?" Her tiny soft voice muttered as her innocent-looking eyes kept trailing between me and the director.
I picked up my jacket on the chair and walked out. Leaving Thomas to deal with the mess he created.
...
It's been two weeks since the incident, and Eloise was yet to be awake. I've become a regular at the hospital. No matter how much I tried to figure it out I still don't know how I will fix this mess. I had director Thomas place her in an ICU, and gave her nourishing vitamins to keep her system strong and healthy.
I laid my head laid on my bed, staring at the moon that shone so bright. It was 1 am and I still couldn't sleep despite having a hectic day.
Suddenly my phone rang when I glanced at it and saw it was director Thomas calling I quickly reached for the phone and answered the call.
"What is the news?" I asked waiting for him to tell me that she is pregnant.
"She is awake."
Holy crap! Everything just got more complicated.
My hands were quivering and I kept tapping my foot on the ground as I was biting my fingers.
"What do we do?" Director Thomas asked me. I was about to ask him the same thing.
"You are asking me? This is your mess, your mess!" I yelled.
I hung up on him and picked up a long coat in my closet. I swerved out of my room and grabbed my car keys on the dining.
When I got to the hospital, I walked straight to her ward. I didn't know why, I just couldn't stop myself.
When I got there I stood by the door staring at her as the doctors examined her. The youngest doctor-Liam took a blood sample from her in the pretense that they needed to carry out more tests.
"Mr. Cooper." Director Thomas walks to me and touched my shoulder but I shoved his hands off me. How dare he place me in such a situation.
"You do know that I'm coming out as a governor in the coming election and people are finding it difficult to support me because I'm twenty-five. And now this, if she comes out and files a case against this hospital, in no time those story-hungry reporters will figure out that the baby is mine. That will be the end of my political career and this hospital, my businesses, and my name I've struggled to build." I was furious.
"Excuse me," Liam interrupted. I didn't wait to hear what he wanted to say, I walked away from there but found myself inside the ICU, holy crap.
"I'm sorry, I got carried away." I forced a smile at Eloise. She looked pale and sad. "I should leave." I turned to walk away just then Thomas walked toward me and whispered in my ears.
"She is pregnant."
I froze. My eyes widened as I kept looking at her. As much as I thought about it, the only option was to tell her and see if I can reason with her, though I doubted I was willing to take a chance.
"I'm sorry, but I have something to tell you," I said to her and sat on the chair right opposite her bed.
"You are pregnant, and the baby is mine." I blurted out. I'm not sure I said it well, the way she was looking at me like I'm some kind of a psycho. But then how could she believe, she just woke up from a coma.
Suddenly she erupted into laughter. I wanted to cry but I didn't know when I erupted into laughter as well.
"Do you need a doctor?"
I paused, did she just say that to me?