Chapter 7: To Have Child

Nuella turned to see him walking towards her. "I came to give you this." She extended the contract to him, and he looked at it.

"I remember telling you to give it to Rosa so she could bring it to me."

"I just decided to bring it instead since she might be busy."

Oliver neared her, making her heart beat. He collected the contract from her and asked, "Did you bring it yourself on purpose?"

"Huh?" 

Seeing how his confused expression made him frown, he said, "You can leave then." He walked into his office and shut the door.

Nuella signed before making her way out of the

That evening, he had asked for his food to be brought to his study while she ate alone in the dining room.

The following day, she immediately got ready for work. It has been two days now since her coffee shop has been closed, so she needed to resume work today.

She made her way down through the elevator; she didn’t have time to eat breakfast, so she hurried out of the house when she saw Oliver sitting down in the living room reading a newspaper. What is with him and newspapers? The news is all online, so why read newspapers?

"You will never understand why? Oliver said, making her eyes widen.

Did she say that out loud?

Oliver moved the newspaper away. He looked at her from head to toe. Even when what she was wearing was cheap clothing, she still matched the outside properly and was decent.

He stood up. "Let’s go"

"You mean us?"

"Is there someone else here, Miss Allen?

Nuella looked around and saw no one else, meaning he was talking to her: "Where are we going to?"

"No questions"

"But I need to head to work because I haven’t..."

"It seems you forgot you signed a contract, Miss Allen." He walked towards her and said, "You know one thing I hate? Repeating myself, if you dare make me repeat myself again... He warned

Nuella shivered at the dangerous look on his face, but she tried to keep her cool.

"You are coming with me." He dragged her along with him outside and only let go when they got close to his waiting car. "Get in," he ordered.

The door was opened for her, and she got in through the other side.

She sat calmly in the car as it drove out of the mansion.

She stared at her bruised wrist and bit her bottom lip. She looked towards the cold and heartless man sitting on the other side and saw how emotionless he was while working on his laptop.

When she saw that he was about to look towards her side, she immediately pulled her gaze away and looked outside the window. She wondered where they were going.

After about an hour, the car drove into the garage of one of the biggest and most expensive hospitals in H city and in country A.

She didn’t know why they were here and could not ask because he had told her there should be no questions.

The door was opened by his bodyguard, and she stepped out and followed him quietly to the elevator. They got in and went to the 11th floor of the hospital. It was when Oliver walked into the gynecology department that she came to realize the reason why they were here. She knew that was one of the reasons why they got married and signed a contract, but she didn’t think that he would drag her here the next day after signing the contract.

"Mr. Haywood," a doctor who would be the same age as David or even older, walked up to them with a smile on his face.

"Dr Wright"

"It’s been so long," the young man smiled.

Nuella stood and watched them as they conversed like close friends; they must be very close for Mr. Haywood to converse with him without using his cold and authoritative tone.

The doctor led them to his office, and she followed behind. The office was so spacious that it had some couches to sit on.

It was after they got to his office that Alex noticed the young lady Oliver came with. He looked at his friend with questionable eyes. "And she is?"

"Nuella Allen," Oliver said as he sat on one of the couches like he owned the whole place.

"Nice to meet you, Miss Nuella Allen; I am Alexander Wright."

"Wright?" She asked without realizing it.

"Yes, I heard it somewhere." Alex asked with a smile on his face.

Nuella shakes her head. "No, it’s nice to meet you too, Dr. Wright."

"Just call me Alex; for Oliver to allow a woman to accompany him, it means you are special." He looked towards Oliver and saw he was busy with his phone, not caring about whatever they were saying.

Alex looked at her hand and saw there was no ring. "You are single; does that mean we can go out for lunch one of these days and get to know each other more?"

"Emmm…" Nuella looked towards Oliver and saw that he was now looking at both of them with an emotionless look on his face.

She looked back at Alex and just smiled, since she did not know what to say.

"So that is a yes."

"Why don’t you get to know why we are here first, Alex? I do not have all day; I’m a very busy businessman."

Alex smiled and said, "Okay then."

They took their seats on the couch.

"So tell me, what is the reason for the unexpected visit?"

By the time Oliver was done telling him, Alex had a look of shock in his face, and then came a resounding laughter. Alex laughed to his heart's content before looking back at them and saying, "Really!!! I must say that your grandfather was really smart, ha ha ha."

"Wow, and you used just 48 to pick a very beautiful young lady." He smiled at Nuella, and she smiled back.

Alex took a very good look at her again; although she was dressed in ordinary clothing, there was something about her, and he was sure Oliver felt the same.

"You have only had a year and six months; you already got married, so you have to have a child?"

"Yes, which is why we are here; we will be doing an IVF," Oliver said.

"An IVF?" Alex was surprised.

"You heard me."

"Why do IVF?"

An IVF (in vitro fertilization) is a medical procedure whereby an egg is removed from the woman's ovaries and fertilized with sperm in a laboratory. The fertilized egg, called an embryo, is then returned to the woman's womb to grow and develop.

Nuella already knew that was what they were going to do if he wanted her to have a child.

"Do not ask me questions; I had to free my morning schedule today because of this, so do not waste my time and go ahead with the necessary test or whatever you need to do." Oliver said it straightforwardly.

Alex relaxed his back on the chair, then sighed, "IVF is a medical procedure that takes days and weeks of running tests and fertilizing the egg, and the first cycle of IVF will take between four and six weeks, and then the second one will take about four to six weeks before she can conceive, in some cases even up to three rounds, which take months, and if I could remember, you said you have just a year and six months for her to have a child, and when she does give birth, she has to nurse her baby for six months at most."

"So what are you saying?"

"You both are married; why not do it the natural way since it won’t take a lot of time?" Alex said, then smiled.

Nuella looked towards Oliver and saw how cold his face was; there was no way he was going to agree for them to sleep together.