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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me with that familiar

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

quietly.

something that I could have mistaken for the very same tenderness he showed me at the banquet three weeks ago. “Get dressed. We’ll

once 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

for me like a perfect gentleman, and I

me, which I wasn’t complaining about. I didn’t want to look at him

entire drive, Alexander’s leg was bouncing in the

seem more anxious than I am,” I pointed out with a smirk as

“I’m not anxious.”

I’m the

hint of a smile tugging at his lips. It had been more common lately,

because of me, necessarily. I knew

I didn’t find it utterly captivating. How many times had Alexander smiled throughout our marriage? I wasn’t even sure if I could count them on one hand. Not until now, when they were

it would be. Dr. Evelyn squirted cold gel on my slightly swollen belly and moved the ultrasound wand around until a grainy black and white uage appeared

pointing to a tiny blob that looked more like a bean than a little life. “Everything looks

far.”

tears as I looked at the screen. That little blob was our child. Mine