The Third Wife by Jordan Silver Page A

another sonogram for some reason, but he kept saying it was fine. In
his office he was all calm smiles, so I relaxed again.
    "What's going on doc?"
    "Where's Cody? He should be here for this." Now I'm
scared again.
    "He's in meetings all day, please tell me
what's wrong with our baby."
    "Nothing's wrong dear, it's just at your
last check up I noticed something a little unusual and wanted to double check
to be sure."
    "Unusual how?" I was at the edge of my seat.
    "Well...there was more than one heartbeat." I fell back
in my seat, what the fuck?
    "Two..." He shook his head, my heart
raced and my head spun.

Cody

 
      I'm standing outside my building waiting for
her. They had called me from the doctor's office to say she was on her way. I
still didn't understand how they could let her drive after she'd fainted. But
when doc had assured me that she was fine and that she had insisted, I
understood her stubbornness. We were going to have a go round about that later.
Right now I wanted to know what the heck was going on. Doc insisted that it was
nothing for me to be worried about but that was easier said than done.
    When you hear that
your heart had fainted, you were bound to worry. Especially when she's six
months pregnant with your child. I saw her pull up and went to get her. I
kissed her before I could help myself. The fact that she was here and she
seemed okay made me lose it a little.
    "What's going on wildflower?" I put my
hands on either side of her stomach where my kid lay.
    "I think you might want to sit down for this one baby."
    "No tell me." I looked into her eyes. There was no fear
there that was good.
      "You
feel anything strange in there? Like maybe little bit has more than two arms or
something?"
    I was confused. I had no idea what she was
talking about. Was something wrong with the baby after all? "What?" I
shook my head to let her know I wasn't following.
    "Hold onto your hat baby daddy. There're
three little tykes in there." She was smiling at me, my ears were ringing,
her face was beginning to blur. Did she just say? I think I mouthed the word
three before I hit the pavement. As my wildflower would say' well shit.'

Alana

 
    I
sat on the ground next to my car with my husband's head in my lap. On TV these
things are over rather quickly. In real life they're a bit scary and last
longer. At least he was breathing. The nurse had caught me when I fainted thank
goodness. I hadn't even attempted to catch this one since he would've taken me
down with him. He had a slight bruise on his head where he hit when he landed,
but nothing serious, there was no blood.
    He started showing signs of
coming to life as I stroked his temple soothingly.
      "Wildflower?"
    "Right here babe."
    "Did you say...more than two?" He turned to look up at
me. I don't think he realized as yet that we were sitting on the ground in the
parking lot.
    "Uh huh." He got
this big goofy grin on his face.
    "One of them has got
to be a boy." He actually fist pumped the air.
    "Hey." I pulled his hair playfully. "They could all
be little princesses." He kissed my tummy.
    "And daddy will love
you all dearly, but please, please, please, one of you be a Junior ."
He climbed to his feet and helped me up.
    "Let's go
celebrate."
      "Don't you have
work?"
    "Are you kidding? This
calls for a celebration, we'll tell everyone later if you'd like. But right
now, it's just you, me, and the baby bump." He patted my tummy. So cute.
    "Okay, what should we
do?"
    "I don't know, anything you want, name it, we'll do it."
I had to give it some thought. I just really wanted to be alone with him for
now. To enjoy the joy that was running through both of us at our good fortune.
    "How about a nice long
drive in the country side? Since you won't let me walk anymore, I miss the
scenery. We can even have a picnic in my meadow."
    "If
that's what you want, then that's what we'll do." He called up Constance
to let her know something had come up and he'd be gone for the rest of the