The Odd Doctor Out | A Drama | S. 5

761 🩺 In The Name Of Love

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'Naeun's dad, maybe you would like to stay back a few minutes?'

Stay back?

'Ah... Sure...'

Sitting back down in his chair, Hongjoong watched as all the other fathers filed out of the education room, all politely and merrily saying goodbye along with their children waving, before leaving him alone with the midwife educator, and his baby daughter on his chest.

'I'm sorry if this is too personal for me to ask,' the midwife said, coming over to him and pulling out the chair beside him to sit. 'I just felt that perhaps, if no one thought it was appropriate to mention, then maybe you wouldn't hear it at all...'

Frowning, as Nabi hiccuped through her sleep, he patted her little back, before glancing up in confusion at the midwife before him. 'Mention what?'

There was a solemn look on her face as she glanced down for a moment, taking a soft, deep breath...

'Your husband mentioned very early on in our classes, that Naeun came to you in... Let's say, less than ideal circumstances...'

Oh god...

His heart tugged inside of his chest as hoards of memories flooded him...

His mom appearing on his doorstep looking more ill and unwell than he'd ever seen her, handing him a baby and claiming she was his sister...

Hours and hours spent sitting on a hospital bed with that baby girl, awaiting some kind of explanation that never seemed to come...

Discovering the truth, while his own mother was on her deathbed...

His mom... Passing away, after her long battle against not only cancer, but life...

... Him trying to push the love of his life away, to shelter him from the way their lives would change forever...

A man who would become his husband in a heartbeat...

Becoming fathers...

It all happened so fast, and even now, nearly six months down the line, he still felt like he was chasing his own tail, down a steep hill where his body was propelling forward at a speed his legs were struggling to keep up with...

'Seonghwa only shared with me a little, but I wondered whether you would like to talk about it... It seems a lot has changed, since you became a father...'

Usually, he thought he was pretty good at pushing through, every time he thought about the enormous storm they had emerged through, but for some reason, sitting in this chair...