I sighed. It was true that I had a tough time letting her out my sight. Humorous sufficient, as quickly as we have been capable of get Alex caught was the identical actual time that my overprotectiveness ramped as much as an much more excessive stage. In any case, she was pregnant with my child.

However as quickly as I’d began to understand how deeply I’d fallen for her, I’d realized that the principles I’d made for her security have been additionally serving my very own insecurities, and I’d identified that I wanted to get ahold of myself earlier than I began resembling the asshole whose cruelty had pushed her to me within the first place.

I’d dedicated to myself that I wouldn’t management her actions, and as a lot because it grated, I watched her depart the cabin to buy groceries and run errands. I’d even stopped asking her to share her location, and she or he’d felt my brow, saying it was an enormous step.

She met my eyes now, and I checked out her, reaching as much as run my thumb alongside her cheekbone after which her lip.

“I’m engaged on it.”

“I do know.”

* * *

“Do you see that flickering there?” requested the physician, pointing on the display in entrance of us. “That’s the heartbeat.”

She smiled at us as we sat within the physician’s workplace, and I couldn’t cease gripping Macy’s hand all through the examination. We’d made on the OB/GYN that Ally had advisable to us after she’d stopped crowing that she’d been proper the primary time I’d met Macy on the market. Once I’d checked out her, confused, she’d simply rolled her eyes and mentioned we might focus on it later.

“You’re about ten weeks pregnant, Macy,” mentioned the physician, analyzing the little blob on the display. We checked out one another, counting again, and remembered that fateful night time when she’d requested me if I’d be prepared to drink along with her. I had, after which we’d discovered one other method to alleviate the stress within the air.

“Is my child wholesome?” Macy requested, gripping my hand as tightly as I used to be gripping hers. I knew her considerations. After what had occurred with Alex, she’d been unable to chill out on the thought that his actions may’ve harm our child, and she or he’d been counting right down to this appointment.

“From all the pieces I can see, your child is completely wholesome.” Dr. Jacobs smiled reassuringly earlier than urgent a button that took a screenshot, setting down the little fetal monitor. “Why don’t you get cleaned up and dressed, and we will go over some being pregnant care directions.”

She bought up and washed her fingers earlier than leaving the room. Macy sat up, and the 2 of us rested our foreheads towards one another for a second, permitting the tears to circulate.

“It’s okay, babe. It’s okay,” I mentioned, leaning ahead to kiss her.

“I do know.”

* * *

“So what do you wish to do now, babe?” I requested as I threw the truck into drive, pulling out of the physician’s workplace.

“Properly, I wish to go dwelling and FaceTime Mother and present her the image,” she mentioned, cradling the little printout of our sonogram to her chest, “and I’d wish to look into getting among the remainder of my stuff shipped out right here from LA. However first, I’d wish to cease by Maria’s café as a result of I might kill a person for a latte and a chocolate croissant.”

I chuckled. “You’re such a weirdo.”

“You like it.”

I checked out her, my eyes mushy, and let the phrases come simply. “No—I like you.”

EPILOGUE

MACY – TWO YEARS LATER

As I closed up my workplace that night time, I considered the previous couple of issues I needed to do earlier than I bought dwelling. It was my flip to make dinner that night time, and Dillon had despatched me a last-minute record of issues to seize earlier than I bought dwelling, so I went to the grocery store and grabbed all the pieces I wanted as shortly as I might.

“Hey, lady,” Ally mentioned as she checked me out. “Are we doing pleased hour this week?”

“You understand it,” I mentioned, grinning. “Dillon already is aware of that he’s staying in for the night time.”

“So what else is new?”

We each laughed at how little had modified. Even when he’d began making extra pals on the town and opening up extra, my husband nonetheless favored to stay near dwelling.

“I’ve to go, however I’ll textual content you, okay?”

“Sounds good, hon.” She smiled at me, and I waved fortunately at my previous coworkers as I left. I used to be a totally totally different individual than the one they’d employed, however then once more, the girl they’d employed had been a shell of the individual I used to be.

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