Prabe #7

I read 90 minutes of Loving by Daniel Steel
Bettina and Anthony are living in his apartment off of the income that Bettina get from Ivo. Anthony can not seem to get a job. They make it through the fall and just before Christmas, Bettina finds out she is pregnant. She is very happy and Anthony is not and he lets her know it. He wants her to get an abortion which she refuses to do.
Not long after Christmas Anthony gets the leading role in a play that is going on the road and they will only take him if Bettina goes along to be the assistant director. She really doesn't want to and Anthony makes her feel guilty about him turning down a role so she decides to go.
They begin traveling with the show and Anthony starts spending less and less time with her and more with another actress in the show. Bettina works harder than she should and is risking her health and the babies.
Things finally come to a head with Anthony and Bettina when his new girlfriend tells Bettina that he only married her for his greencard and he will be leaving her as soon as their six months is up. Bettina confronts Anthony and he doesn't deny it. Bettina moves to another room and through the night she begins to have cramps and bleed. She rushes to the hospital but it is too late, she loses the baby. Anthony comes to visit her but he doesn't seem to care. Bettina leaves the company and goes back to New York.
While in New York, Bettina decides to give Anthony a divorce and she gathers all of her things and decides to start a new life in San Francisco.
In San Francisco, she stays in a beach side inn that she and Anthony had stayed in. She is depressed from losing her baby and her husband. She cannot sleep and with the depression, she decides to take all of her sleeping pills; she is rushed to the hospital.
Dr. John Fields is the doctor in the hospital that takes care of Bettina. He talks to her about why she did what she did and tells her that she needs a friend. He decides to be her friend and asks her out to dinner when she is dismissed from the hospital.
She and John seem to hit it off and his lawyer friend, Seth helps Bettina get her divorce from Anthony.
Bettina finds a job in an art gallery and gets herself a studio apartment. She and John continue seeing each other.
John asks Bettina to marry him when her divorce is final. Bettina doesn't see the rush by she finally gives in to John's pleas. Bettina and John are married two days after her divorce is final.
They enjoy a nice honeymoon and soon Bettina finds out she is pregnant. John is elated and they buy a house in the subarbs next door to their friends Seth and Mary.
It is time for Bettina to have the baby and she goes into labor at Mary's house. Mary takes Bettina to the hospital where they are met by John. It is a long hard labor and Bettina is strapped down by her doctor until 4 in the morning when their son is born.