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
just friends,” I reminded her. I ran a hand over my belly. “Everything
of course,” she said. “It really won‘t be that long
know how that made me feel. Was
The fuzzy form of a man next to me came into
to me. Soren would be so supportive. He‘d probably manage to make it fun.
next to me. “I know giving birth is never easy, but you‘ll be just fine. I‘ll
to get the images out of
young and strong. I‘m sure this will be a perfectly normal birth where everything will
her bag. I knew she had some other patients to see that day. I had other things to do
business, and I
that I needed to hurry and finish, or it wouldn‘t be
pick some flowers. At least, that was what I told myself I
looking
myself for even leaving the comfort of my own home. How had he managed to reduce me to this state again? I had come so far,
teenage girl,
a few times, but he didn‘t
I came
you,” I
had he even bothered to come here if
Lola said, and I thanked her as I took the vase full of water
I went to set the vase on
over the floor, spilling water all over my
no!” I said as Lola also cried out. “I‘m so
me get a broom and mop. Pregnancy
off to get the tools she needed to clean up my mess, and I backed away from the glass
returned, I reached for the broom. “Let
off. “You could hurt yourself.
injure myself, though I felt awful that I’d created such a mess for her to have
just wasn‘t thinking straight. I was a danger to myself and
as
I still didn‘t
pretended to prune the trees, but I didn‘t see any trace. No footprints, no lingering scent, no
to think that perhaps he hadn‘t actually
third day after he‘d shown up in my garden, I had decided I just needed to get on with my life. Whatever it was that had brought
blanket, staring at nothing as
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