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"I don't understand what do you mean you're already married?" Meghan looks at her fiancé George Ricci while wondering if he's on drugs.
"I'm sorry Meghan I've been married for a month now to Emma".
Meghan look around the room at her wedding guests, the priest and her parents. The were all opened mouthed.
"You've been married to my best friend and my maid of honour for a month?" Meghan ask disbelievingly.
George her fiancé nods, "I can explain it's not what it looks like".
"Oh you mean you didn't betray me with my best friend or is currently humiliating me at the alter in front of magazine editors, our friends and family and the priest".
Eight months later
"I don't have a surrogate", Meghan was on the phone to the hospital . They were desperate for her to come and get her son. "I don't know what game you're playing but I'm not playing it", she says to the person on the phone.
There is dead air then she hears, "Hello Ms Adam this is officer Monroe we urgently need you to come down to Memorial General".
Something in his tone makes Meghan realise this wasn't a joke. She grab her bag and tells her driver she was going out. He then drives her to the hospital. When Meghan arrives at the floor she was told to go to she sees Emma lying in a hospital bed.
The doctor notices her, "She doesn't have long left sadly. She held on I think to say goodbye to you".
Emma looks ghostly white in her hospital gown as she notices Meghan, "Meg you came". Those where the last words that she spoke.
Meghan was ushered out the room, "Before we can give the baby to you I need to do a blood test".
She follows the nurse to another room in a daze and have her blood taken. "The results shouldn't take long".
Meghan had not seen Emma in eight months or spoken to George in that same amount of time. She didn't know what happened with their relationship. Why was he not in the hospital by his wife's side as she laid dying.
Meghan was Emma's only family because she grow up in the foster care system. They met by accident one day in a diner they literally bumped into each other. Meghan remembers watching Emma sitting down in a boot and only having water to drink.
She quickly realised she didn't have any money so Meghan invited her over and told her to order whatever she wanted from the menu and it was her treat. They talked and Emma told Meghan about her life with her foster parents who weren't treating her well. Meghan kept going back to the diner for the three weeks she was in Maine.
Emma turned eighteen while Meghan was in Maine and after talking to her parents Meghan asked Emma to come with them to New York . There were conditions of course Emma had to go to counselling, not steal from Meghan or her family. Don't do drugs and she was to be drug tested regularly. She had to signed a contract agreeing with the stipulations.
Meghan family were incredibly wealthy and they had to protect themselves.
Meghan's brought out her thoughts by George's voice , "Meghan how are you?"
"Shouldn't you be worried about your dead wife and not about your ex-fiancée", she says coldly.
"She's not my wife she hasn't been for a while", Meghan was shocked to hear that.
"I got call to come down here today to pick up my son and was told she didn't have long to live. Emma looked like a corpse when I got here. Do you know what was wrong with her?"
George sits down beside her, "I didn't know she was sick. It would seem you're still down as her next of kin that's good you should be able to get some answers".
"That means I have to arrange her funeral but I haven't spoken to her in eight months".
"I'm sure she has left a will", George says to her.
They both sit in silence after that lost in their thoughts. After a while the nurse that took Meghan's blood walks back into the room.
"The blood work has come back you're both the baby's parents. Meghan and George look at each other in shock.
"I'll take you to see your son now if you just follow me".
They follow her to the nursery and see their son for the first time. He was asleep he had brown hair and looked like Meghan but he had his father's nose.
It was a surreal feeling for Meghan seeing her son for the first time who she knew nothing about with his father. The same man who humiliated and betrayed her months before.
"We need to think of a name for him".
Meghan look at George of all the thing she expected him to say that wasn't it.
"Arthur", she says.
"Arthur David Adam Ricci".
"He's your son I'm not going to denied you his last name".
"Thank you".
After filling in the necessary paperwork George and Meghan leaves the hospital with their son. After dropping Meghan and Arthur off at Meghan's mansion. George leaves to buy everything they would need for Arthur. Everything from a crib to baby formula and bottles. He ask Meghan if he could stay for a few days with her and their son till he got settled she said okay.
Meghan walks into her house to be greeted by her housekeeper Debra. Apart from the car seat for Arthur she had nothing else for him.
When George arrived with the baby supplies Meghan takes the baby bottles and sterilise them then feds Arthur.
Pretty soon the house had everything a baby would need. Meghan knew she wanted a proper nursery for Arthur. So she calls one of the best decorators in New York to come and do up Arthur's room.
When Arthur was asleep Meghan walked downstairs with the baby monitor in her hand. She sees George in the living room.
"We need to talk", he says to her. "I'm sorry for the way I behaved at our wedding it was callous and heartless of me to treat you that way. I never had an affair with Emma yet she told me she was pregnant with my child. I did put some sperm on ice before I met you and she somehow found out about it. By marrying her I was making sure my child was protected. I'm going to assume you did the same with your eggs".
"She had I both froze some eggs as we were both so career oriented. If you wanted to protect your child why did you divorce her?"
"After I halted our wedding, that afternoon she told me it was someone else's baby and she faked all the evidence she showed me. I was very angry at her and filed for divorce that day".
"Did you never check to see if she was lying to you I mean she did show you evidence after all?"
"I was so angry with her and I was happy to get her out my orbit".
"You believed her enough to marry her and enough to divorce her. You should have checked if the baby was yours. Clearly she was lying about something".
"The night before our wedding my Nona got some bad news about her health. I spent six months in Italy with her. She's better now that's why I'm back in New York. I've been here for the last two months. She will be so happy to hear I have a son".
The next day Meghan found out Emma left her in charge of her estate and her burial. She also left her everything she owned and stacks upon stacks of letters. Emma numbered the envelopes and wanted her to read them in numerical order.
Meghan arranged Emma's funeral and invited the handful of people that Emma wanted there. Meghan couldn't help feeling sad as she and George said their final goodbye to her.
Ten years of friendship turned into lies, deceit and egg snatching thought Meghan in her bedroom after the funeral.
Meghan put Emma's letters away in a draw unopened. Then go into Arthur's room to see George feeding him.
"Let's get married", she says to him.
He looked very surprise at her words, "Today made me realise that I want Arthur to have at least one parent taking care of him if god forbid something happens to the other. If Emma didn't get in touch with us when she did Arthur's future could have been so different. He would have gone into care or be adopted".
"When do you want to do get married?"
"If we fill in the paperwork today we can get married in three days. I just want us and Arthur at the wedding. We can tell our families about us getting married and about Arthur after we're married".
Three days later Meghan walked into her townhouse as Mrs Ricci. George moved some of his things into what was now their home. He put his house on the market because it held too many bad memories for him. Meghan's house held good memories for him so he tells her he doesn't mind staying there.
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