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.”
asked me, and I knew from the twinkle in her eye that she was
made a face at her. “We‘re just friends,” I reminded her. I ran a hand over my belly. “Everything
said. “It really won‘t be that
how that made me feel. Was I ready to give
The fuzzy form of
to me. Soren would be so supportive. He‘d probably manage to make it
be just fine. I‘ll be there with you every step of the way. Do
times, trying to get the images out of my mind.
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
and she got up to go finish packing her bag. I knew she had some other patients
business, and I needed to
to hurry and finish,
evening fell, I went outside to pick some flowers. At least, that was
looking
How had he managed to reduce me to this state again? I had come so far, only
was like a teenage girl,
didn‘t answer. Sol cut some
as I came in.
you,” I told her,
to come here if he wasn‘t going to
her as
window as I went to set the
floor, spilling water all over
as Lola also cried out. “I‘m
me get a broom and mop. Pregnancy can make
the tools she needed to clean up my
returned, I reached for the broom. “Let me
said, waving me off. “You could hurt yourself. I’ll get it, Miss
though I felt awful that I’d created such a mess for her to
thinking straight. I was a danger to myself and
as
passed, and I still
next day in the garden, looking for any sign of him while I pretended to prune the trees, but I didn‘t see any trace.
perhaps he hadn‘t actually come to see
I just needed to get on with my life. Whatever it was that had brought Ethan back into my life for those few fleeting moments, he‘d gotten it. Now that he had what he wanted, he was gone
in the baby‘s nursery, sewing the blanket, staring at nothing as Seraphine organized the drawers of clothing we‘d
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