The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 170

Ella

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The ultrasound appointment card was sitting on the breakfast table when Alexander walked into the kitchen three weeks later. I’d set it down for two seconds while I grabbed my coffee, and he had spotted it immediately.

“What’s this?” He picked up the small white card and inspected it

“My first ultrasound. It’s today.” I reached for the card, but he held it just out of my reach. “Can I have that back?”

“Were you planning to go alone?”

I shrugged. “It’s just a routine checkup. Nothing exciting. We won’t know the gender for another couple of months.”

Alexander’s eyebrows shot up. “Ella, this is our baby’s first ultrasound. Of course I’m coming with you.”

“You don’t have to-

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set the card back down on the table and fixed me with that familiar look

my own over the years, especially anything related to my health,

quietly. “If

have mistaken for the very same tenderness he showed me at the banquet three weeks ago. “Get dressed.

I finished my coffee and gobbled up a couple slices of toast with jam, I hurried upstairs to change. I threw on a comfortable sundress–summer had brought with it a hot and humid spell that was not doing any favors for my early pregnancy discomfort–and some

him. He opened my door for me like a perfect gentleman, and I tried to ignore the discomfort I felt when

I wasn’t complaining about. I didn’t want to look at

the entire drive, Alexander’s leg was

am,” I pointed out with a smirk as we pulled into the

“I’m not anxious.”

I’m the Alpha

his lips. It had been more common lately, that damn smile. He thought I didn’t notice,

it wasn’t because of me, necessarily. I knew he was

sure if I could count them on one hand. Not until now, when they were becoming more common than seeing him in a suit, which was

swollen belly and moved the ultrasound wand around until a grainy black and white uage appeared

to a tiny blob that looked more like a bean than a

far.”

blurred with tears as I looked at the screen. That