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him we were expecting, but then he just congratulated me. He has his own problems to worry about.
    She walks back into the room, the medical assistant asks her to undress and put a paper gown on when she steps out. I can tell she is as nervous as I am. But I need to let her know that I’m here for her. I sit in the chair next to the bed, and star rubbing her stomach. She still has tears in her eyes, she touches my hand as I run it up and down her baby bump.
    “Look at me beautiful, I’m right here. I’m not going anywhere. I will always be here, never doubt that , Lila. You hear me, let me know you understand.” She gives me a nod, and takes a deep breathe. “Mine. You, the baby bean, and the girls are all mine.” I growl.
    She let s out a small gasp and says, “Thank you, for loving me even though I fucked everything up.” I kiss her forehead and hand her a couple tissues. Just as we start getting comfortable, Brandy walks back in the room. She puts a monitor on Lila’s belly and a smile spreads across all three of our faces.
    “Well Mr. and Mrs. Ellis that is a strong sounding heartbeat the baby has. Are the two of you ready to see the baby? Do you want to know the sex today? This will be the last ultra sound we do.”
    “Yes, ma’am we are ready, and we would like to know the gender.” Lila says as she looks at me and smiles. The nurse squirts jelly on Lila’s stomach and then runs a wand over it while she pushes buttons on a keyboard. I hold on to L’s hand and we both notice the beautiful baby on the screen, it’s no longer a bean.
    “Well, someone is surely big and healthy. If you look here you can see he has his thumb in his mouth, and you see here. H e is definitely a boy.” She says as she looks over at the two of us who are now both in tears.
    “Baby, we’re having a boy. You see that, the girls are going to be so happy.” I say as I kiss Lila, I can see that she’s as happy as I am, but I can also see that she’s so unsure about everything. I bend down and whisper in her ear, “It’s okay, he is ours. He is an Ellis, no matter what.”
    “Thank you , Liam,” is all she got out before she starts crying. The nurse hands us some tissues, she wipes Lila’s stomach off and says the doctor would be in shortly, to talk to us about everything.
    We just sit there hugging each other, we’re having a boy. I have to regroup my thoughts about everything I want to ask Dr. Brewster. A young woman walked in the room, she doesn’t look old enough to be a doctor though. She looks through the electronic thingy and looks over at my wife and me.
    “Hi, I’m Dr. Tanil l Brewster. Looks like we have a healthy baby boy here.” She says as she shakes both of our hands. “Do you guys, have any questions or concerns that you would like to discuss with me today?”
    I can feel Lila shaking, next to me. I place my hand on her shoulder and then pull her closer to me. She looks down at me and I shake my head. I clear my throat and look at the doctor and say words I wish I would have never have to say, “I have some questions, is there a way to perform a DNA test to determine the baby’s paternity? His father may be another man, but we want to be sure before we mention this to him.”
    “Yes , there is a test that we can administer. Lila is far enough along that we would be able to determine paternity. If you don’t want to know now, we can also perform the test after the baby is born. It would be up to you to decide if and when you want the test performed. How we would perform the test now? We would take a sample of the placenta, this would be no harm to the baby or Lila what so ever, but there is a slight chance of a miscarriage. This test is what we perform to check for hereditary diseases that can affect the fetus.
    “ We would then send the sample to the lab, along with a swab from the potential father’s cheek to determine if the DNA matches. This test is used often with a high rate of success, just