Free Falling For The Doctor (BWWM Pregnancy Romance) by Violet Jackson

through him as he pictured the worst scenarios. He dashed into the bathroom, drawing up short as he found it empty. He backtracked into the room and looked around carefully again. This time he noticed she had not left a stitch of clothing behind.
    His heart constricted in his chest as realization hi t Sherina left him.
     
    ***
    “You have been a wreck these past few days. Are you sure you are alright?” Deb asked, concerning darkening her green eyes as she stared across the table at her friend.
    Sherina bit her lip worrying at the soft bit of flesh which was already sore form so much biting. “I need to just rest is all.”
    “Sher, you can’t get much past me you know? You are all skin and bones! You have lost so much weight in just five days and you jump every time the doorbell rings. What is going on? Are you in trouble?”
    Yeah, trouble was right, Sherina thought humorlessly. She was in trouble alright. Five days and she still could not get that cheating bastard off her mind. Her hands curled into a fist as she recalled the bold beautiful scrawl of his signature on that marriage certificate. She had seen him sign enough prescriptions to recognize that signature anywhere! She bit down on her lip so hard this time that she drew blood.
    “Oh God, you hurt yourself,” Deb shouted grabbing a bit of Kleenex and dabbing it gently against Sherina’s lips. “Please tell me what’s wrong. You’re starting to scare me. Is it me? Did I do something?”
    “Oh no, Deb, you’ve been wonderful,” Sherina assured her, patting her arm.
    “Then?” Deb persisted, cocking her head to the side.
    “It’s David. He’s married.”
    “No. No.”
    Deb read the unhappy truth in her friend’s expression and anger and sorrow warred inside her as she took Sherina in her arms and let her sob her heart out.
    ***
    David came over  later that night; it was a cool Deb that informed him in an even frostier tone that Sherina was ‘unavailable’. She banged the door in his face and for good measure, called in a locksmith the next day and changed all the locks, effectively shutting him out.
    All through the next day, the phone rang incessantly as David tried desperately to reach Sherina. Deb bore the incessant ringing for as long as she could then she grabbed the phone and flung it against the wall, causing it to shatter into a million little pieces.
    Sherina looked up at her in surprise and she shrugged, “We have to get a new phone.”
    Sherina cracked a smile, the effort stretching her face since she had not smiled in so long.
    “Sherina,” Deb said sinking onto the cushion beside her. “I think you need a break. A vacation sort of.”
    “Take one by all means. I’m fine right here.”
    “David isn’t going to stay away. He’s going to keep coming after you and you need to face him. Just hiding away isn’t good enough. You need to recover, you need a vacation.”
    “What about Andre?”
    “What about him? I think he may be taking me for granted just a little bit. I also need time away from him.”
    Sherina chewed on her lip some more, her thoughts jumbled as she considered Deb’s idea. As though on cue, yet another knock sounded on the door, causing both women to jump.
    “Sherina open up, it’s David,” the voice from the other side of the door, sounding slurred as though he had been drinking.
    “Is he drunk?” Sherina whispered to Deb her eyes automatically filling with tears at the sound of his voice.
    The sight of her friend’s distress was too much for Deb and she stalked to the door. The moment it opened, she yelled, “Stay the hell away from her Knight! You’ve done enough. She doesn’t want to see you.”
    She banged the door shut in David’s face and stalked back inside to comfort her weeping friend. On the other side of the door, David rested his head weakly against the door frame; Sherina was avoiding him he realized. He just didn’t know why.
    The next morning, Sherina and Deb set off for Vienna