Chapter 29. Who Was Otis?

“Congratulations!” A nurse approached us with a huge smile. She just finished taking mine and the baby’s vitals.

My face went all red as I averted my eyes from Otis embarrassingly and then awkwardly chuckled at the nurse, “He’s not the father, but thank you.”

The nurse apologized with a timid voice and then excused herself awkwardly out of the room while Otis and I just smiled at each other shyly. He stepped closer to my bed to look at my pup, and he whispered in a gentle, shushing voice that made me stare at him. The wonder in his eyes never disappeared while looking at my baby. “She looks so much like you, Miss Giselle. Does she already have a name?”

“We were not sure if my pup was a girl or a boy, so I hadn’t prepared any,” I admitted to him, which made me a little guilty as I looked down at the small, angelic face I had seen in my entire life. “I want to wait