Chapter 86: Would He Ever Come Back?
I walked through the garden for a few moments, looking around the bigger hedges and bushes, trying to find Ethan, but I didn‘t see him anywhere.
It was like he had vanished from my life again.
With a hand over my baby, I walked back home and went inside, closing the door behind me.
It seemed so lonely inside now. Not long ago, Soren and I had been sitting at the table eating dinner, laughing, and having a good conversation about our day. Now, the entire house seemed still and quiet.
“What was Ethan even doing here?” | asked myself aloud. I had no idea.
He said he‘d come there to see me, but why?
How did he even figure out where I was?
I wanted to talk to Ethan again. I wanted to find him and make him sit down and answer a thousand questions.
But that wasn‘t going to happen.
I lay backward on my bed and stared up at the ceiling, wondering if I‘d ever even see him again. There was a chance he would just go back home. Perhaps all he wanted was to see me, and now that he had, now that he knew that I was alive, he would just turn around and head right back to Madalynn‘s open arms.
Madalynn… and her ring.
I decided there was nothing more I could do, so I got ready for bed.
However, In my restless dreams, I kept seeing Ethan again but not being able to speak to him.
When I woke up, I couldn‘t stop thinking about him.
Seraphine was there to check my vitals, and Lola was tidying up the cottage. We were all friends, but I knew | couldn‘t talk to them about this. I couldn‘t risk them finding out the truth about my past.
Thad left that all behind.
Or at least, I thought I had.
“Ro?” Seraphine asked as she put her stethoscope back in her midwife bag. “Are you okay? I‘m done checking the baby, and you usually ask me a thousand questions. Today you‘re just staring off into space.”
“Oh. I‘m sorry.” I shook my head, smiling at her. “I guess I‘m just distracted this morning.”
the twinkle in her eye that
“We‘re just friends,” I reminded her. I ran a hand over
course,” she said. “It really won‘t be that long
made me feel. Was I ready to give
me lying in bed, pushing out my child with Seraphine‘s help, came to mind. The fuzzy form of a man next to me came into
be very different based on who it was next to me. Soren would be so supportive. He‘d probably manage to make it fun. Ethan, on
dear,” Seraphine said, sitting down next to me. “I know giving birth is never easy, but you‘ll be just fine. I‘ll be there with you every step of the way. Do you have questions about how it will
trying to get the images out of my mind. “Oh, no. I think I‘ll be
have questions, let me know. Your baby is healthy, and you‘re young and strong. I‘m sure this will be a perfectly normal birth where everything will go as planned, and before long, you will have
and she got up to go finish packing her bag. I knew she had some other patients to see that day.
had business, and I needed
on a baby blanket that I needed to hurry and finish, or it wouldn‘t be
fell, I went outside to pick some flowers. At least, that was what I told myself I was doing… but honestly, I
looking
even leaving the comfort of my own home. How had he managed to reduce
girl,
a few times, but he didn‘t answer.
She smiled at me as I came in. “Do you
be wonderful. Thank you,” I
come here if he wasn‘t going
I thanked her as I took the vase
eyes were focused out the window as I went to set the vase on a table. It slipped from my
all over the floor, spilling
as Lola also cried
me get a broom and mop. Pregnancy can make
up my mess, and I backed away from the
reached for the broom.
waving me off. “You could
to injure myself, though I felt awful that I’d created such
I was a danger to myself and
as
and I
any sign of him while I pretended to prune the trees, but I didn‘t see any trace. No footprints, no lingering scent,
that perhaps he hadn‘t actually come
up in my garden, I had decided I just needed to get on with my life. Whatever it was that
at nothing
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