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✧MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS✧

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Three weeks. 

For three consecutive weeks, both Alphard and Rhea were having loads of unprotected sex. At first, it had been a sense of duty, but now getting past the loathing hatred of what's to come, Alphard and Rhea had turned it into an adoring time.

To enjoy the other one and their presence.

It also made it quite easy, given that his last appointment hadn't come with any removals, seeing as they were progressing along fairly quickly. But that still did not give Alphard any reason to find himself without a shirt of some sort to keep his chest covered.

He couldn't figure out that during his surgery, Rhea was well acquainted with what they looked inside of him. Yet he was still a little nervous and embarrassed, and his wife hadn't said anything ill will about his new habits.

Instead, something switched in Rhea as she was taking her daily fertility doses—Nearly in timing with his own, so it felt like a team effort.
At least, that is how his sadistic thinking was going.

In terms of work, he had slowly started the process of shifting the power to both Orion. In addition to Rhea, but truly, it was mostly giving her updated summaries to keep her aware.

Nothing would change to gain her signature until he had passed, though Rhea took this new task easily. Especially since she had started taking a set amount of time each week.

Enough to be able to keep her job without the fear of losing it.

While Willow was no longer on the floor, Maverick would sometimes glance at her in suspicion—She had never given in to the fact that Alphard had most certainly owled his friend on the board.

But at this point, Rhea couldn't feel guilty to have her switch to another floor. Not when she had the nerve to ask outright for more hours after reaching her limits.

Currently, both he and Rhea were in their shared bathroom sitting on the circular couch that had been moved at Alphard's request, given that they both had found it a comfort to talk whenever one was in the bath.

It was starting to become a favorite pastime of the two.

"How long does it take?"
"Three to five minutes, it's only been ten seconds, Alfie." She responded, her stopwatch well in her grip as she didn't want to leave the slow-ticking arm. "And it needed your—?

"Yes. Urine is one of the techniques. The next one is a blood test, that is the most accurate." His impatience had gotten the better of him as he took the second test and took the moment to read through the directions before taking Rhea's hand—With his gloves on—and taking her forefinger to poke with the small spike on the quark.

Upon locking it back into the glass bottle, he started shaking and counting in his head while also looking at the stopwatch.

Better to have double the confirmation than more confusion.

"This is pure agony." He grumbled, hardly at the halfway mark. And that is what drew her attention to her husband. "My menstrual cycle is late this month...So there might be a chance."
"Truly?"
"Either that or my body is trying to make sense of all these damned potions I'm feeding myself...Or the attack has made things a little difficult." With that, she turned to look back at the pocket watch, but it hadn't lasted long when Alfie had gripped her forearm as he hadn't thought of that possibility.