#Chapter 342 – A Quiet Night

Ella

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We had dinner a little later, and Henry got to give Cora his shocked congratulations on her pregnancy. His eyes were wet, a little, at the thought of his second grandchild, but it was all for joy. It was a wonderful evening that we all spent together surprising after such a horrible morning.

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Tomorrow, I know, we have a lot to think about and decide. But tonight? Tonight I just want to sleep in my mate’s arms and get some rest under the knowledge that nobody is going to attack us and try to take my baby.

I’m tired, then, when Sinclair and I head back to our room with little Rafe in my arms, already asleep. A’s Sinclair opens the door for us I give a little wave to my sister and Roger, who are sleeping a few doors down.

“Aw,” I say, looking up at Sinclair as we walk into the room. “I’m jealous. I want to get knocked up.”

“What!?” Sinclair exclaims, laughing as he moves across the room to the little table where we’ve unpacked our clothes, eager to get ready for bed.

I pout as I move to the little makeshift cradle waiting by our bed that Henry instructed Sinclair’s men to make for us this afternoon, laying my sleeping baby down on the thin, firm mattress waiting there for him.

“I’m just a little jealous!” I declare, laughing a little.

eager, and wrap my arms around his neck, smiling up at him. “You do realize that you just gave birth to our perfect little baby, and that it was an incredibly complicated

what I said. I don’t want to be pregnant – at least, not right now. Not yet.

it brings out all the little crinkles around his eyes that I love. “Please explain, then, my love,

shrug, “not be trying to get pregnant, and then one day poof! Surprise!” I look up into

I think, understand. But he wants to hear more. “And why, Ella,” he asks,

would have met, or had our baby, if we hadn’t been thrown into that situation. But there was so much that was stressful about how Rafe was conceived – I had to spend so much money, and just hope that it worked, and frankly the idea that my sister put your defrosted sperm in me when you were just

can feel him nodding. “Yes,” he agrees. “I see. A little,…less romantic and

and Cora…it’s been so complicated for them, but there is something beautiful about them making that little miracle

Sinclairs knuckles graze my face and look up at him again.

he murmurs softly,

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the priests showed me, of our little family of four. Could

and sliding his hands down my back to grip my ass. “If you’re that eager to get knocked up

hesitate. Let’s wait, a little,” I say quietly, “before we think about a second child. Until all of this,”

grip on my ass and using the leverage to pick me up in his arms. I laugh and wrap my legs around his waist, hands looped casually behind his neck. “You control the timeline. In the meantime,” he growls playfully as he moves his face closer to

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