A Brand New Life: Love, Lust and Lies in Pine Valley (A Zack & Marty Romance)

Chapter 8

"Marty, I waited for you at my casino." Zack said, when David walked into Marty's suite with Marty and Brianna. "I thought we had a date?"

"Oh, Zack, I'm sorry. I had to take Brianna to the hospital." Marty apologized.

"That's okay." Zack said as he took Brianna from Marty's arms and laid the tot in her crib. "I'll take it from here, David."

"Dr. Hayward, when the test results come in for Brianna?" a worried Marty asked him before he slipped away.

"I'll get back to you when they come in." David told Marty.

"Thank you, Dr. Hayward."

"Please, call me David." David told her.

As David left, he called Cara at the hospital to find out about the test results on Marty's daughter, Brianna.

"I'm sorry, David, I'm still working on them." Cara told him.

"Well, when you get them, let me be the first to know." David demanded from Cara.

"Yes, David, you are the attending doctor. Of course you'll be the first to know." Cara told him.

"Thank you." David said, as he plotted to come between Zack and Marty for Marty's affections.

Back at Marty's suite at Zack's casino, Zack and Marty were alone together as Brianna finally soothed herself to sleep and Cole was in class at Pine Valley Unversity.

"This is a lovely lunch." Marty told Zack.

"Thank you. I prepared it myself." Zack said, hoping to impress Marty with his culinary abilities.

"You made this chicken salad?" Marty said, as she scooped more into her mouth. "I absolutely love it."

Zack got out his phone and put some soft romantic music on as he asked Marty for a dance.

"May I have this dance?" Zack asked her, extending his hand out for her to accept.

"Yes you may." Marty said, as she gladly accepted his hand as Zack whisked her out of her chair for an impromptu dance to "Lady in Red" by Chris DeBurgh.

Back at the hospital, David was just getting the results back from Cara about Brianna's tests and gave Marty a call.

"I'm sorry, Zack, I have to get that." Marty said as she stopped the dance to retrieve her phone lying on the table that showed it was from PVUH. "David?"

"Yes. Marty, I have the test results back for Brianna." David told Marty.

"Is it good news?" Marty said worried.

"Meet me at the diner in Zack's casino in 20 minutes." David said hanging up and not giving Marty a chance to respond.

"Dr. Hayward...." Marty said before the line went dead.

"I'm sorry, I have to go." Marty said to Zack as she grabbed her purse and headed out leaving Zack alone to watch Brianna.

(Coming: Marty finds out the results of Brianna's tests at a price.)