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Chapter 9 Mr Scott, Do you not Care about your Child?

"Hello, Mum," Aiden said as soon as he answered.

"Aiden, who is that woman in your apartment?" Mrs Scott questioned and Aiden frowned. 

"You will have to be specific, Mum," Aiden said.

"I understand you are keeping a woman in your apartment," Mrs Scott said.

"I have a lot of women in my apartment. So what are you talking about?" Aiden asked.

"Don't play smart with me, Aiden. You know what I am talking about," Mrs Scott said.

"Mum, to be honest, I don't. I will appreciate it if you will be more clear and I can give you an answer," Aiden replied.

"Ruth just left your apartment and she said there is a pregnant woman in your apartment," Mrs Scott said.

"I like the fact that you said it is my apartment. And again, I have a lot of females in my apartment. I don't have a restraint on their sexual relationship," Aiden replied not ready to tell Mrs Scott about Ana.

"So one of your servants got pregnant?" Mrs Scott asked.

"How am I to know? I don't suppose you think I sleep with my servants," Aiden said and Mrs Scott went silent. 

"You are supposed to get married to the senator's daughter. Keep that in mind and don't do anything that will jeopardized that. It is very important," Mrs Scott said and ended the call.

Aiden requested a ride to his apartment not ready to face anyone. All he had on his mind was his last conversation with Monica. He knew Monica was hiding something and she didn't mean any of what she said but there is only one thing he could not explain to keep loving Monica. The slap from Monica and her resistance to his kiss. Monica has once told him, she can never raise her hands on a man she loves no matter what. If she raised her hand on him, then it only meant she didn't love him any more. 

"Sir, where are we heading," asked the cab driver, interrupting Aiden's thought.

"Just drive," Aiden said sounding irritated by the driver. 

"Okay sir," the cab driver replied and moved the car towards town. 

Aiden sat in the car and the car driver just driving through town. After half an hour, the cab driver looked at Aiden in the rear-view mirror and decided to make a suggestion. Just driving with no destination was beginning to feel strange with a man looking like a mafia king in the back seat.

"Sir, there are some fun spots in town. Would you like it if I drop you at one of such locations?" the cab driver asked intending to get Aiden out of his car as he was no longer comfortable.

"Take me to Beverly Hills," Aiden said and the driver turned the car around and headed for beverly hills. 

They drove into the estate and Aiden dropped off in front of his apartment. He paid the cab driver and the security man opened the door for him.

"Welcome sir," the security man at his gate welcomed but Aiden ignored him and headed for his apartment.

"Bienvenido señor," Alice greeted upon opening the door for Aiden and he only responded with 'hmm'

Aiden walked past Alice, stopped at the staircase and called Alice back. In Spanish, he asked her what happened and Alice told him everything she knew from the time Ruth had called her. Alice also mentioned Dr Jerome carried something in a blanket out of the apartment. Aiden after listening to Alice dismissed her and went upstairs to Ana's room. It was empty. He scanned the room for a while and turned to leave but his eyes caught a blood stain on the floor. He looked at it for a while and exited the room to his small office. He turned on the laptop and buried himself in work. 

Back at the hospital, Dr Jerome and his team were able to save the baby. Ana was moved into one of the private wards and Dr Jerome called Aiden when he returned to his office. 

"Hello Mr Scott," Dr Jerome said.

"What do you want?" Aiden asked.

"Mr Scott, please, Ana needs you. She is carrying your child," Dr Jerome said

"Is she the first woman to get pregnant?" Aiden asked annoyed still annoyed from the incident with Monica.

"Mr Scott, do you not care about your child? Your flesh and blood?" Dr Jerome asked.

"How is the baby?" Aiden asked after a long period of silence.

"She didn't lose the child even though she almost did," Dr Jerome said sounding like he was scolding Aiden.

"Good," Aiden said and Dr Jerome folded his hand into a fist like he wanted to hit Aiden with it.

"Mr Scott, the baby and the woman are a package deal. Please, you can't treat the woman like a furniture in this condition. She is emotionally traumatized. If it continues like this she will lose the baby," Dr Jerome said.

"Make sure that doesn't happen. That is what I am paying you for," Aiden said firmly on the phone.

"Mr Scott," Dr Jerome began but Aiden cuts in.

"Make sure nothing happens to the baby," Aiden said and ended the call. 

To Aiden, Ana is a woman whose womb he rented to carry Monica and his child and that is all she will be to him. After ending the call, he recalled what Monica had told him about the child. The baby Ana was carrying was his and Ana's not his and Monica's. 

"Fuck!" Aiden cursed and got up from behind his desk. 

He had wanted to distract himself with some work so he would not think about Monica but Dr Jerome's call messed that up. He came downstairs and grabbed a bottle of whisky and a glass. He returned to his office and sat on the sofa. After taking two glasses full of whisky, he sat down in deep thought. 

Back at the hospital, Dr Jerome was wondering what he was going to do about Aiden. He was very concerned about Ana's condition and the baby's health. They did the insemination without Ana's knowledge and when she passed out, they put her into a coma and moved her to Aiden's apartment to keep her like that all through the pregnancy but Ana woke up from the coma. It is understandable what she was going through. He was also not sure what conversation she had with her mother that had taken a toll on her. He called Haga to his office.

"Do you have any idea what Ana and her mother discussed in my apartment?" Dr Jerome asked.

"No, Dr. I left them to talk. When I returned they were both in tears. Ana was not ready to share with me what they talked about," Haga replied.

"Get close to her and find out," Dr Jerome said and Haga acknowledged.

Back at the family house, Ruth had just returned home. She entered the living room and found Mr and Mrs Scott waiting for her.

"What happened?" Ruth asked looking at the strange look on their faces.

"You made me sound like a fool in front of Aiden today," Mrs Scott said, displeased.

"What do you mean?" Ruth asked folding her arms across her chest as she stood in front of her parents.

"You told me Aiden was hiding a pregnant woman in his apartment," Mrs Scott said.

"Yes, he is. I saw the woman. His personal doctor moved her out of the house to the hospital," Ruth said. 

"I called Aiden and he didn't have an idea of what I was talking about. Besides he has a lot of female servants in the house and he had no control over who they sleep around with," Mrs Scott said.

"Mum, I asked that Spanish maid of his and he keeps the woman upstairs in one of the rooms. The question is why will Aiden keep a pregnant servant locked up in a room and have his personal doctor attend to her?" Ruth asked.

"Are you by this insinuating, Aiden got her pregnant?" Mr Scott asked.

"It is the only explanation," Ruth said.

"Aiden is not that kind of a person. He was married to Monica," Mr Scott said and Mrs Scott agreed.

"That is true but he will do anything for Monica and last I checked, Monica can't have children. I am sure, Aiden was using the servant to get Monica a child," Ruth pointed out.

"Ruth you are right," Mrs Scott agreed.

"We need to get rid of this woman. His marriage with Monica is over and I don't think the senator's daughter will be happy to marry a man who already has a child with another woman and a servant for that matter," Mrs Scott said.

"I will have someone take care of that," Mr Scott said and fetched his phone.

He dialled a number and after confirming the name of the hospital spoke to someone instructing the person to go to the hospital and get rid of Ana and the baby. 

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