1Never Say Never

Chapter 20

The next two days Lorelei stayed with Paul in the hospital. She ate and slept there.

"Pumpkin, you need to go take a shower," Paul said. "I know you have a hotel room. Go take a shower and a nap. I'll be okay for a few hours alone."

"I know you just scared the crap out of me. I thought I was going to lose you or something," Lorelei told him.

"I don't plan on leaving any time soon. You of all people should know that," Paul said. "Go, take all the time you need."

"Fine," Lorelei agreed. "I'll be back in a couple of hours."

"See you then," Paul said. "Love you."

Lorelei just blew him a kiss before she left to do whatever she was going to do.

Paul had originally been surprised to see Lorelei. He hadn't expected to see her there with him when he woke up, but there she was watching over him like she always did. He guessed he was just lucky that he found the one. He couldn't believe he had almost lost her.

Shortly after Lorelei left, when he was about to take a nap himself Stephanie came in. Presumably to talk to him about something.

"Look, Paul, I have something to tell you. I'm pregnant," Stephanie said.

"And I need to know this because?" Paul asked remembering the last time Stephanie had told him she was pregnant.

"Because it's our baby," Stephanie told him.

"How do I even know you're pregnant let alone if the baby's mine?" Paul asked. "It's not like you have the best track record with telling the truth."

"Paul, I'm not lieing. I thought you deserved to know your first child is on the way. I wish I could be a bigger person and not care and stay out of your life, but I can't. I don't expect much to come of us. I would hope we can be civil to each other but nothing more.

"When you prove that there is a baby and it's mine, then I'll consider being on civil terms with you. Until then, you can see yourself out."

"Fine, Paul, be that way. I will be back, most likely when Lorelei's around, and prove that this baby is yours. What are you going to do then?" Stephanie asked before leaving.

Paul didn't read too much into it. Stephanie was always making idle threats. He knew this could ruin the fragile truce that he and Lorelei had called. He hoped it was another of her ploys to get him back.

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Stephanie expected Paul's reaction. She knew he wasn't going to believe her right away. She'd already screwed that one up. Now she had to prove it to him.

She asked her OB to send a copy of her file to Paul. She knew he would look into her background. Maybe when he saw that she was a legitimate doctor he would believe her. Then she would set about proving the baby was his.

She had to do this. It didn't matter as much if she and Paul got together as much now, later she would worry about that, but right now she wanted her baby to have a father. She surprised herself when she thought of someone beside herself. She just passed it off as the hormones talking.

She decided to got back to thinking of ways to make Paul hers again. He didn't see a sign of Lorelei at the hospital, which she was hoping was a good sign. Lorelei might not care as much about him as everyone thought she did.

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Paul spent five days in the hospital after his accident. The doctor said he needed a few more days to heal up before he rode a plane. He would have to talk about when to return with his regular doctor.

When Paul got out of the hospital, he was more than ready. He was positive he couldn't take any more of the four walls that hospital room. He would have gone crazier than he already was.

Lorelei was also happy that Paul was getting out of the hospital. She had detested being there.

"Thank you for staying with me," Paul told his wife.

"I didn't have anywhere else I would rather have been," Lorelei told him. She knew the hole time they were there he could sense how much she disliked it.

"I honestly didn't think that you would be there when I woke up," Paul said.

"I just came. I stopped thinking with my brain and started thinking with my heart. Obviously, my heart has always been with you. That's why I haven't been able to take any steps to end our marriage," Lorelei said.

"Makes sense I thought about it before realizing it would look like giving up, and I wasn't going to give up," Paul said. "You mean more to me than anything to me." Paul considered telling her what was going on with Stephanie. It would be better than her hearing it from anyone else, but their relationship was so fragile right now. It could ruin everything they had entirely. He also knew the same could happen if he didn't tell her. It could end up being a lose, lose situation.

"Paul, earth to Paul. You zoned out on me for a minute," Lorelei said.

"Sorry. I know you're not going to like this, but Stephanie came by the other day while you were gone," Paul said. "She claimed the baby was mine." Paul could only hope that honesty was the best policy. There wasn't much he could do now.

"Did she have anything to prove it?" Lorelei asked trying to stay calm. She wasn't exactly sure who or what she was angry at, but she needed to be calm.

"No, but I made the mistake of telling her to come back when she had it," Paul said hoping steam wouldn't come out of her ears.

"Paul, you know that there's a possibility she's telling the truth right?" Lorelei asked. "With both of you on the road so much it makes shared custody almost impossible, and I know how much family means to you."

"Honey, we'll cross that bridge when, and if, we come to it," Paul said. "It down do any good worrying about it right now."

"I guess you're right. We'll drive ourselves insane thinking about the what if's," Lorelei said. "I'm afraid to see what the house looks like."

"It isn't that bad. I am able to pick up after myself," Paul told her.

"I'll believe it when I see it," Lorelei said. "You should get some rest. The doctors said you need to spend the next few days getting as much rest as possible."

"I've done nothing but rest for five days. I don't know how much rest I can take," Paul said.

"Sorry, you just don't know when to give up. You always over do things," Lorelei said. "Watch TV or a DVD or something."

Paul just glared at her for a moment before settling in an seeing what was on. "I can still at least watch RAW right?" he asked.

"If you must. No jumping around or anything," Lorelei told him.

"I'm not the one with an inability to set still for more than three minutes, my dear," Paul told his wife.

"Whatever. I have some calls to make," Lorelei said going onto the bedroom of the suite.
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