Gaining Gibbs (Marco's MMA Boys #4) (8 page)

CHAPTER 15

GIBBS

A WEEK LATER

“Are you going to tell me where we’re going?” Gia asks, smiling from the passenger side of my truck.

I grin. “It’s a surprise.”

I’ve been watching Gia since the cookout. I have my reasons to be curious about our situation and I feel like something is off. I’ve only mentioned the doctor once since then and she seems to have no interest in going, so I’m surprising her today. I called the doctor’s group that Kara uses and set her up an appointment. They are at their satellite office today, instead of the one at the doctor’s building next to the hospital, so we’re headed there now.

Once we pull into the parking lot, she looks over at me and her face looks panicked. “What are we doing here?”

I shrug. “Well, I wanted to surprise you. I knew you didn’t have classes today and I thought we should see a doctor.”

“I have my own doctor!” she barks.

“Well, you can’t seem to get in with him so I was worried. You haven’t been to the doctor yet and you have to be almost out of your first trimester. You need to be seen.”

I get out of the truck and walk around to her side. She steps out and I feel her shaking next to me. “I’m really not feeling well today, maybe I should come back another day.”

I grab her arm. “All the more reason for us to go in and get you checked out.” I turn to her. “Unless there is a reason you don’t want to.”

“Yes, I want to see my doctor!”

About that time, the office door opens and I see a tall guy with blonde hair walk out. The big thing I see is that he’s got my girl on his arm. She’s been crying, I can tell.

“You aren’t even paying fucking attention to me!” Gia screams.

I turn to her. “How am I not paying attention to you? I’m taking you to the doctor.”

The guy and Jade stop to look at us and he jogs over. “Hey, I’m Dr. Jennings. Can I help you?”

“Well, he’s being unreasonable!” she screams.

I look at the guy, I can still see Jade standing next to the building out of the corner of my eye. “She’s pregnant and she hasn’t been to the doctor yet. She’s close to twelve weeks, so forgive me if I feel like she needs prenatal care.”

He looks at her. “Ma’am, it is really important that you get prenatal care. Why haven’t you been to a doctor yet?”

“I haven’t been able to coordinate my schedule with my regular doctor,” she says stubbornly.

“Well, I’m an OBGYN myself, I’d be happy to check you out today. Ease your,” he looks back and forth between us, “b-boyfriend’s mind.”

“I’m the baby’s father. That’s it.”

He nods. “Oh. Okay, sorry.”

I wave him off with my hand. “It’s not a big deal. I just want to get the baby checked out, make sure everything is okay.”

He nods. “I understand-.”

I stick my hand out. “The name’s Gibbs.”

“Gibbs,” he says, shaking my hand. He looks back to Gia. “Plus, it’s not good for you to get this upset. Come on, let’s go in and get checked out.”

He guides her toward the office, not really giving her the option to choose otherwise. I see Jade wipe her eyes and start walking toward her car. I stop on the way. “Hey, are you okay?”

She nods. “Yeah, I’ll be fine.” Turning her back and continuing to her car, she doesn’t really give me a chance to say anything else.

Once I’m inside, I ponder why Jade is here and why she’s crying. I don’t get much time, though, because the doctor asks a nurse to take Gia’s blood and take her to a room.

He stops me in the hall. “You seem to have concerns other than about the baby. Do you suspect drug use or anything?”

I swallow hard. “I don’t think she’s really pregnant.”

He looks at me dumbfounded. “Why do you think that?”

“Well, I called off what we had going on and she shows up at my house to tell me she’s pregnant. I’ve asked her numerous times about the doctor and she’s put it off. I told her I’d like to get an ultrasound to see exactly how far along she is, she still put me off.” I stop to breathe for a second. “She was on the pill when we were having sex. I always used a condom, but I was like ‘hey, they aren’t always a hundred percent’ so long story short, I’m not sure there really is a pregnancy. And I’m not the only one, her family is curious, too.”

He nods. “Oh. Okay, I guess I can see why you’re so concerned.”

“Why are you helping me so much here?” I ask curiously.

“Well, as I was walking out with Jade, she mentioned you’re a friend of the family and was a little concerned.” I shake my head.

“Yeah, um, thanks. I’ve heard good things about this practice. That’s the reason I set her up an appointment here.” I should ask him what in the hell Jade was crying about and why in the hell he cared so much. Before I can, though, the nurse calls him to the room.

A little bit later, he calls me back but before I can walk in the exam room, he stops me. “I shouldn’t tell you this out here, but I’m going to tell you as soon as we get on the other side of this door anyway.” He shakes his head. “She’s not pregnant. We went ahead and did a urine test, too, so we could get results pretty quickly. I have the lab rushing her bloodwork, but she’s not pregnant now and I did an exam, it doesn’t appear she’s had a miscarriage either. There’s no bleeding or anything. Does she have a family member you can call?” I’m sure my face is turning red because I can feel the heat crawling up my face. I know he’s trying to be safe.

I nod. “Yeah, I can call one of her brothers,” I grind out. I’m so fucking pissed right now, I could fucking kill her.

He sighs. “Do me a favor, go ahead and get one of them on the way here. Then we’ll go in and talk with her and try to find out why she’s done this.”

I text Huck and ask him to get his ass here, I’ll explain when he gets here. Then I step into the room and she’s shaking her head. “No, I AM PREGNANT!”

He shakes his head. “No, ma’am, you aren’t.”

“Well, I must’ve had a miscarriage and didn’t know it,” she says venomously.

He looks at her with a seriousness. “Ms. Moxen, we are doing some tests on your blood right now, but upon my examination, it doesn’t appear that you’ve recently had a miscarriage.”

There’s a knock at the door, the nurse in the room with us sticks her head out and turns to me. “Did you have a relative come for her?”

I nod and she opens the door further. Huck walks in the door with Sly beside him. “What’s going on, Doc?” Huck asks as he and Sly both shake hands with the doctor.

Dr. Jennings gives them the rundown of the past half hour. Huck steps to her side. “Gia, now is the time to tell us. What’s going on?” he says in his deep voice.

She looks up at him. “Nothing. I must’ve had a miscarriage and didn’t know it.”

The nurse finally steps forward. “Sweetheart, I’ve had two miscarriages and I assure you, you would notice
something
.”

She glares at the nurse. “FUCK YOU! Fuck all of you.”

Sly barks. “Gia! Watch your mouth in here. This is a professional office. This guy right here is my wife’s doctor and he saw Chelsea, too, so you WILL treat him with respect.” He shakes his head. “Now, you need to tell us what’s going on.”

“FINE! It was all a lie. I was getting back at him for going out with Jade.” She glares at me. “Yeah, I saw you guys out on your date. You never took me places like that. You were laughing and having fun with her, then you guys went home together.” She shrugs. “So I fucked it up for you.” She giggles. “And Jade’s seeing this hot doctor now, instead of some fucked up fighter like you. If I have to lose something I want, so do you.”

I have never wanted to hit a woman so bad in my entire life. Huck grabs my shoulder and walks me out of the room. “Man, I’m so fucking sorry.” He just keeps shaking his head. “She’s so much like my fucking mother to have never lived with her. This is exactly like some shit Brandi would do.” He sighs. “Go home. We got this. Her ass is going to a shrink or something. I’m not dealing with this or living through shit like I did with Mom. Go throw her shit in some boxes and Sly or myself will be by to get it later.”

I keep taking deep breaths, trying to calm myself down. “She ruined what I could’ve had with Jade,” I say with a little raised voice, pointing to the door. Huck gives me a look that says I shouldn’t raise my voice to him. I look at the floor, “Is she really dating that doctor?”

He shrugs a little. “I know she’s been out a couple of times with him, but I don’t really know more than that.”

I lean against the wall and let my head thump back into it. “This is so fucked up.”

Huck pats my shoulder. “Man, I really am sorry. Just go, we’ll talk later.”

I nod, stuffing my hands in my pockets and walking toward the truck. I wasn’t looking forward to having a kid with Gia, but I was looking forward to having a kid. I knew in my heart driving here today she was probably lying, but I couldn’t for the life of me see how someone could actually do that

CHAPTER 16

JADE

I really want to know what happened after I left the parking lot but honestly, I have too much shit going on in my own personal life to worry about someone else’s.

I’m not pregnant and a reality has set in that I may never be. I haven’t told my family and I don’t plan to.

My phone pings.

GAVIN: How are you?

ME: I’m dealing.

GAVIN: Would you like some company?

ME: I’m waiting on all of my meds now. Then I’m going to go home and get some rest.

GAVIN: Okay. Well, please let me know if you need anything. I know today was a lot of information. It can be overwhelming.

ME: You’ve been great. Thank you.

He really is a great guy. I should to try harder with him. Maybe I’ve been so caught up in my own head, I can’t see the attraction.

My phone pings again once I get home. Thinking it’s a text from Gavin, I grab it up.

CLAY: Are you okay? You looked really upset.

I sigh. I’m not answering it. He needs to be with his child and…well, whatever she is to him. He’s happy about having a child and I will probably never be able to give him one. At least Gavin understands this going in. With Clay, I would want everything, the fairytale.

My phone starts ringing. Damn it, why can’t he just leave me alone?

Without looking at the screen, I swipe at it. “Hello!” I bark out.

“Okay. Hello to you, too.” My sister’s snarky voice comes through the line.

“Sorry. I thought you were someone else,” I mumble.

“Well, can Krista come hang out with you for a little while?”

“Sure. What’s going on?” I can tell in my sister’s voice that something is off.

She lets out a deep sigh. “Well, it’s not easy to sugarcoat this, so I’m just going to get it over with. Gia’s not pregnant. She never was. She lied to everyone. Gibbs called Sly and Huck to come up to the doctor’s office. They helped him confront her. Huck went ahead and sent Gibbs home, he didn’t need to be up there. Personally, if I were him, I would’ve killed her ass.” My sister is revved up, I can tell by the way she’s rattling and I can’t fathom how Clay is feeling right now. “Anyway, she went violent in the office after he left, throwing shit and then tried to hit Dr. Jennings. So the guys called Mox and he met them to sign her into a behavior facility. Huck’s really worried that she’s showing some of the same symptoms as their mom.”

I don’t understand that. “What symptoms does their mom have? I’m confused. She’s never really spent any time with their mom.”

She lets out an exhausted breath. “Years ago, in one of her many stints in rehab, it came out that she’s bi-polar. Part of the reason she’s always strung out is because she won’t take her meds like she’s supposed to. She goes for harder stuff or to just be passed out drunk.”

“Oh. Wow. That’s…well, it’s fucked up. So what are you going to do?” I ask, because if she says she’s going up there, I’m not going to let her. She doesn’t need the stress.

“Chelsea and I are going over to pack up her crap at Gibbs’ house. He’s started, but it’s not right for him to have to do that all alone. It’s mostly just clothes.” I can hear her rustling around in the background.

“Yeah, just drop Krista off here and I’ll watch her until you guys get finished.”

“You sure?” she asks. “You sound tired.”

“Yeah, I’ve been busy, but it’s okay. I always have time for my niece.”

“All right, we’ll be over in about thirty minutes.”

I smile. “Okay, I’ll get the popcorn ready.”

Krista loves to come over and watch movies and eat popcorn. She tells everyone it’s ‘
dirls wight’
.

“Right on time,” I say as I hear a knock at my door. Swinging it open, I find Gavin. “Hey, what are you doing here?”

“Ah, I decided to ignore what you wanted.” He laughs. He has a pizza in his hand. “I brought food.”

I smile. “Well, if you brought food I guess I’ll let you in.” I step back and let him in.

As I’m about to shut the door, I hear, “My Jade!” as the door is shoved back open by a two-and-a-half-foot tall powerhouse.

“Sorry, she just bolted up here. It’s hard for me to keep up.” She laughs and then notices I have company. “Oh shit. You didn’t say he was coming over.”

I feel him behind me. “I surprised her. I didn’t know she was having such cute company.” He hugs my sister. “Are you keeping an eye on your levels?’

She nods as she pulls back. “Yes. Jade was just going to watch Krista for me. So I can go help Gibbs pack up that crazy b-i-t-c-h’s stuff.”

He nods understandingly. “Well, did they get her checked into the facility and everything okay?”

She nods. “Yes. It is a place the guys had taken their mom before. Thanks for writing the letter. Without it, I’m not sure they would’ve had it that easy.”

He smiles. “It was no problem. She has some serious battles ahead of her if it does turn out to be bi-polar disorder.”

I chuckle at Krista looking through my movies like she can read the titles. “You picking a movie, Princess?”

She holds up a copy of
Cinderella
that has been watched a million times. “Dirls wight.”

I laugh. “Well, is it okay if Mr. Gavin joins us for girls’ night?”

She puts a hand on her little hip. “I duess.”

Kara laughs. “Okay, well I shouldn’t be too long.”

I hug her. “Take your time.”

After I shut the door, I see Gavin has already gotten Krista situated on the floor with her popcorn and the movie going. He motions for me to sit on the couch, pulling me into his side as the movie starts.

A realization hits me. I’ll probably never have
this
. A child on the floor watching a movie while Dad and I snuggle on the couch.