Chapter 2
"Please stop! I don't know who this Rabb person is, but he's not the father of my baby!" Krista exclaimed.
Frowning, AJ reached for the intercom, "Coates, cancel Rabb and I don't want to be disturbed. Now young lady you have a story to tell and I have very little time, so why don't you just start and not stop until you have finished."
"I should probably start at the beginning. You see I have never met the father of my baby, and that is how I wanted it, until...well um...you see there was a terrible mix up at the sperm bank and I got some that shouldn't have been used, but now that it has happened...oh this is much harder than I thought it would be..." she sighed and looked up into his eyes for the first time. She saw the deep chocolate brown eyes that she hoped her son or daughter would have.
"So you used a sperm bank to become pregnant and are now looking for the father and he is a military man. I think those records are supposed to be kept a secret, unless they sign a paper allowing the mother to know who they are, and how to get in touch with them. That is how the law used to be, unless it has changed over the years. What can I possibility do to help you find the father of your baby?"
"Sir, I know his name, and I have found him. You're right about the donor's name being kept secret, but this was a special circumstance, you see, Sir...you're the father..." she couldn't look at him when she said this, so she didn't see his reaction.
"That's impossible!" declared AJ standing from his chair and walking to the window. He stared out with his hands clasped behind his back. "There is no way possible I could be the father of your baby, Krista. I am sorry, but the sperm bank has made a mistake."
"Yes, Sir, they did. The mistake was when the records were transferred into the new computer system, and your instructions that your donation was not to be used by anyone, but you or someone you authorized, was not transferred. When I filled out the forms as to what I was looking for in a father for my child your description matched so perfectly that you were the only one that came up. I was inseminated, and when I needed to find out who the father was, it was only then, that the mistake was found. Here is the paperwork from the sperm bank saying what happened, and that you're...um...you're the biological father of this child," she had just kept talking faster and faster trying to get the explanation out that by the time she finished she was almost hyperventilating.
Walking over and taking a seat next to Krista, AJ said, "You have to calm down or you're going to faint on me. I can handle delivering a baby, but I don't like it when a woman faints at my feet." AJ smiled. "You leave the paper work with me, and I'll check with the sperm bank just to make sure that they didn't feed you a bunch of bologna. In the mean time do you have a place to stay and money for food?" asked AJ.
Krista jumped to her feet, "I'm not going to faint or deliver the baby either, I am only four months along. And I didn't come here for your charity! I don't need or want your money, that's not why I came!" Tears slid down her cheeks again, "I'm sorry they made that mistake and used your sperm on me, but they told me that there was still enough left if you ever wanted to use it...I mean if there was a woman you wanted to use it on...oh this isn't coming out right..."
"No, it's coming out just fine, so don't worry. I'm not married nor do I intend to be. I'm too set in my ways and no one would have me now anyway."
"Then they are stupid! I really am sorry I bothered you, Sir, but I can't imagine an unmarried man wanting this child. I'll just go with my second option and put it up for adoption." She got up once again and managed to get out of the office while AJ recovered from the shock of her wanting to give the child up for adoption.
To be continued…