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.

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


lip, unsure of how to finish without

I felt fucking

or the way I was

The full moon is in three days, you know,” she

my stomach drop. I’d been so

and me that I’d

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

throat, suddenly feeling bashful.

perfectly safe for the

she was saying I needed

felt like a lifetime ago, even though it had only been

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had changed since then. We’d reached some new level in our relationship, but we

paint those little animals on the nursery wall. When he carried me to bed tonight. When

felt like to be with him. The way his hands felt on my skin. The way he looked

trusting me. And I couldn’t shake the feeling that somewhere in the back of

wolf suddenly chimed in, reading my

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