He cringes. “Sorry.”

I give Gerard a glance and he sighs, leaning on the counter. “Don’t swear like the boys do, alright, son? You may swear while you’re older.”

Money nods, twisting his palms. “Sorry, I didn’t know.”

Gerard ruffles his hair and straightens. “Your mom and I need to discuss to you.”

Instantly, Money is aware of one thing massive is coming. He narrows his pale eyes they usually bounce from me to Gerard.

“You’re getting a brother or sister,” my husband says.

Money’s brows shoot up. He sits there for a second, the gears in his head working.

“Okay, the place are they?” he asks.

I need to communicate, however I really feel like it is a vital second for Gerard and Money. So I keep quiet.

“Your mom is pregnant,” Gerard says. “The infant is rising proper now, however within the spring, you’ll have a sibling. Similar to when the cows have been born final spring.”

This time, it’s my brows that shoot to my hairline.

“It’s not similar to that,” I say. “I don’t give start like a cow.”

“That’s not what I meant,” mentioned Gerard. “It’s the overall concept of it. Anyway, that’s all it’s worthwhile to find out about it, son.”

We each wait, breath bated. I’m frightened that Gerard opened a can of worms citing the birthing season as a comparability. Money sits and thinks arduous, his forehead creased. Then he jumps off the counter and goes to the door.

“Okay, I assume I can wait that lengthy,” he says.

I sigh with reduction. “Are you able to go discover your chair and set it up on the porch?”

He nods, heading down the corridor. The entrance door slams.

“Do you assume he is aware of in regards to the cows?” I ask, worrying my decrease lip. “Like, how the little cows get there?”

“No,” Gerard says, shaking his head.

He pulls me to his facet and kisses the highest of my head. I soften into him, listening to the bacon crackle on the range.

“I don’t need him rising up too quick,” I whisper. “He’s solely going to be my little boy as soon as.”

‘”I do know, redbird,” he says.

He goes to set the desk up on the porch and I carry the meals out. The air is balmy and the chirrup of frogs from the pond is peaceable.

Money insists on consuming on the porch step, his plate in his lap. We’re on the bench towards the home. Gerard leans again, his knees unfold, taking on half the bench. I lean towards him, curling up within the bend of his arm.

I see all the pieces laid out earlier than us.

Gerard and I’ll get older. Our youngsters will turn into adults. I see Money, as tall and massive as his father, on a horse like Shadow. And from the nook of my thoughts’s eye, I see a lady with pink hair. Using a painted mare, just like the wind.

All of the ache of my previous broke the day he met me in my first husband’s workplace. It took time and persistence to select up the items. However we pushed by means of and sometime our kids might be adults with out the identical burdens, due to what we did.

They’ll be free and protected on Sovereign Mountain. Within the place that saved us each.

CHAPTER TEN

KEIRA

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