Chapter 210

Chapter 210

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After he hung up, he sat on the edge of the bed. “The doctor will be here in thirty minutes.”

“Thirty minutes,” I repeated. “That’s a long time. We could do a lot of things in thirty minutes.”

“Ella.”

“What? I’m just saying. We’re alone. The baby won’t care if we-”

“You inhaled toxic fumes. You need to rest.”

I huffed and turned away from him. “You’re no fun.”

Dr. Evelyn arrived exactly thirty minutes later. While Alexander waited in the hall, she took my vitals, listened to the baby’s heartbeat, and asked me a series of questions about how I was feeling.

“Everything looks normal,” she said when she was finished, packing up her stethoscope. “The paint fumes might have made you a little dizzy, but you and the baby are perfectly healthy.”

By now, I had sobered up. Humiliation had quickly burned through my earlier high, although I still felt a strange pull toward where Alexander was standing on the other side of the door. It felt like the mate bond

was stronger. More… potent.

keeping my voice low, “I feel… strange. It doesn’t


unsure of how

I felt

seemed to understand right away. Perhaps it was the flush in my cheeks or the way I was squirming uncomfortably on the bed like I wanted to leap up and run

The full moon is in three

I’d been so focused on

Alexander and me that I’d completely forgotten about the

moon’s effects,” the doctor explained. “Especially first- tíme mothers. You might experience heightened

can I…” I cleared my throat, suddenly feeling

your mate can help regulate the hormonal changes. It’s perfectly safe for the baby,

saying I needed

together like that felt like a lifetime ago, even though it had only

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We’d reached some new level in our relationship, but we were still dancing around each other, still figuring out what we

about him in that way more and more lately. When I watched him paint those little

still remembered what it felt like to be with him. The way his hands felt on my skin. The way he

me now? He’d said he was trying to trust me, but that was different from actually trusting me. And I couldn’t shake the feeling that somewhere

do something nice,” my wolf suddenly chimed

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