Chapter 5

• DANTE'S POV
• "Any news yet?" I looked up from the file on my desk, to see Alexa poking her head through my door. I almost let out a groan. The girl was stressing me out, asking the very same question everyday, for the past three weeks.
• "And yet again Alexa, no." I eventually groaned, making her giggle. "It seems you want this child more than I do."
• "Maybe I do. The suspense is killing meeee." She cried. "Maybe we should just call them."
• "Patience." I bit out. "What if this whole thing turns up unsuccessful again?"
• "No, brother." She shook her head. "I have a strong feeling that we will be suprised this time."
• "We'd better be. Or who knows? I just might kill that Doctor this time around." I glared at no one in particular.
• "Dante, really?" Alexa shook her head in disbelief. Why was she acting like I'd actually do that?
• Maybe I would.....
• Just then, a call came in and I looked at the screen to see that it was Doctor Luigi.
• Oh... Wow.
• "Alexa....." I muttered mindlessly, standing from my seat, and stepping out from behind my work desk.
• "I think what you have been waiting for is finally here." I said, swiping my thumb across the answer button.
• "Hello?"
• "Mr Ferrari." He called, before releasing a sigh and giving pleasantries. "Good morning sir."
• "Good morning Doctor Luigi. You have news for me?" I asked, looking across the lawn from the window of my study.
• "Mr Ferrari....." He called again, sounding really hesitant. Right then, I knew he didn't have any good news for me.
• No matter how many times I was being let down this way, the disappointment always felt fresh.
• "Cut to the chase and tell me whatever news you have for me, Doctor. I am a very busy man."
• "Dante...." I heard Alexa whisper behind me, and I knew she could already tell the situation of things. Her voice held so much sympathy.
• "Mr Ferrari, we are so sorry."
• "Fine then. The procedure failed this time. How soon can another one be carried out?" I demanded, my jaw clenching. I was angry and I hated the fact that it wasn't necessarily the Doctor's fault.
• "Oh my...." Alexa whispered again, further making that pathetic feeling overpower me. I wanted to smash something. Badly.
• Hanging up the call on Doctor Luigi, I picked up the wine glass that had been on my work desk and threw it against the wall.
• Still, I didn't feel satiated.
• "Dante!" Alexa gasped.
• "I need to be alone. Please leave." I demanded. She stood immobile in her spot, just giving me that look of pity that I so much hated.
• "Dante, please....."
• "Now, Alexa!!!" My voice boomed, and she shook in her spot. Almost instantly, I regretted lashing out on her.
• Just then, my phone began ringing. I looked to see that it was Doctor Luigi.
• Again.
• What the hell did the man still want?! I'm sure he knew better than to give me words of encouragement. I didn't need them.
• "What is it?" I asked immediately I answered his call.
• "No... nothing Sir." He stuttered. "You hung up before I could..... before I could explain the actual situation on ground."
• "What?" A frown appeared on my face, as I wondered what more he could have to say.
• "Sir, we are sorry, but there may have been a mix up at the hospital."
• "Huh?"
• "What I'm trying to say, Sir, is that there may have been a bit of professional negligence on our side. We made a mistake during the procedure."
• "Go straight to the point, Doctor. My patience is fast running thin."
• "We may have inseminated your sperm into the wrong woman, Mr Ferrari." He blurted out, making everywhere go silent at once.
• What?!
• **************
• I walked into the hospital, fuming with rage. Walking past the reception, I headed for Doctor Luigi's office. How the hell could these bast*rds have been so st*pid?!!
• The moment I stepped into his office, a jittery Doctor Luigi turned to me, backing the female Doctor he had been conversing with, before my arrival. It was so clear they had been talking about me.
• "Mr Ferrari......"
• "How did this happen?" I asked in a dead tone.
• "Mr Ferrari, please......"
• "If you love the position of your head on your neck, you wouldn't let me repeat myself, Doc." I warned, making him swallow visibly.
• "On that very day.... Miss Elizabeth Colombo had her appointment for 10am. But it turns out she didn't show up."
• "What do you mean, 'she didn't show up'?" My eyebrows kissed each other in confusion.
• "I mean.... we thought she did. She actually didn't show up that day. Yesterday I had called her to come for the pregnancy test, and she sounded confused. She asked why I was calling for a test, when she hadn't even shown up for the main insemination."
• "So what you're saying is that the surrogate your incompetent ass hired, did not show up for the procedure?! Even after receiving half of the agreed payment?"
• I was growing more annoyed and irritated as each second passed.
• "That is exactly what happened!" Doctor Luigi nodded frantically.
• "She didn't show up, and yet you inseminated my sperm into another woman's f*cking pussy?!" I growled. "Are you begging to have your head ripped off, Doc?"
• "That is what I was trying to explain." At that point, sweat had broken out on his forehead.
• "Another lady with the same surname; Collombo, had shown up at the hospital by 11am. Apparently, she had a different appointment for 11am. But the receptionist mistook her for the surrogate, assuming she came late, and sent her to the wrong room."
• No matter how this was supposed to make sense, it just didn't.
• "And you inseminated the wrong person? Didn't you know who you selected as my surrogate?!!" I was losing it now!
• "My apologies sir, but I do not carry out the procedures myself. The Endocrinologist does it." He pointed towards the female doctor that had been silent the whole time.
• "And a random woman let you put another man's sperm inside her, without objecting?!" I asked, wondering how much more stupid this situation could get.
• "Not exactly, sir." The 'endo-whatever' lady replied. "The procedure she had come for, had a similar process to that of an insemination. She wouldn't have known. And all the while, we had simply referred to her, as Miss Collombo."
• "And where the hell is this lady?! What is she saying about all these?"
• "About that sir..... She was taken for a urine test to confirm if she is....." He hesitated for a moment, before speaking. "...pregnant."
• Hearing that, my heart beat dropped dramatically. I had actually forgotten that this said lady could be......
• Just then, the door to Doctor Luigi's office opened, and a couple of people I hadn't cared to look at, stepped in.
• "That's the lady, Mr Ferrari. She is the one we inseminated." Doctor Luigi pointed towards the door.
• I slowly turned to look at the supposed woman, and I felt the rug being pulled from under my legs.
• What the actual fuck?!!
• Collombo??