Chapter 86: Would He Ever Come Back?
I walked through the garden for a few moments, looking around the bigger hedges and bushes, trying to find Ethan, but I didn‘t see him anywhere.
It was like he had vanished from my life again.
With a hand over my baby, I walked back home and went inside, closing the door behind me.
It seemed so lonely inside now. Not long ago, Soren and I had been sitting at the table eating dinner, laughing, and having a good conversation about our day. Now, the entire house seemed still and quiet.
“What was Ethan even doing here?” | asked myself aloud. I had no idea.
He said he‘d come there to see me, but why?
How did he even figure out where I was?
I wanted to talk to Ethan again. I wanted to find him and make him sit down and answer a thousand questions.
But that wasn‘t going to happen.
I lay backward on my bed and stared up at the ceiling, wondering if I‘d ever even see him again. There was a chance he would just go back home. Perhaps all he wanted was to see me, and now that he had, now that he knew that I was alive, he would just turn around and head right back to Madalynn‘s open arms.
Madalynn… and her ring.
I decided there was nothing more I could do, so I got ready for bed.
However, In my restless dreams, I kept seeing Ethan again but not being able to speak to him.
When I woke up, I couldn‘t stop thinking about him.
Seraphine was there to check my vitals, and Lola was tidying up the cottage. We were all friends, but I knew | couldn‘t talk to them about this. I couldn‘t risk them finding out the truth about my past.
Thad left that all behind.
Or at least, I thought I had.
“Ro?” Seraphine asked as she put her stethoscope back in her midwife bag. “Are you okay? I‘m done checking the baby, and you usually ask me a thousand questions. Today you‘re just staring off into space.”
“Oh. I‘m sorry.” I shook my head, smiling at her. “I guess I‘m just distracted this morning.”
I knew from the twinkle in her eye that she was prying. “I know you
friends,” I reminded her. I ran a hand over my belly. “Everything is okay with
said. “It really
didn‘t know how that made me
child with Seraphine‘s help, came to mind. The fuzzy form of a man next to me came
me. Soren would be so supportive. He‘d probably manage to make it fun. Ethan,
is never easy, but you‘ll be just fine. I‘ll be there with you every step of the way.
few times, trying to get the images out
know. Your baby is healthy, and you‘re young and strong. I‘m sure this will be a perfectly normal birth where
and she got up to go finish packing her bag. I knew she had some other patients to see that day. I had
business, and I needed to
on a baby blanket that I needed to hurry and finish, or it wouldn‘t be done in time for the
some flowers. At least, that was
looking for
had he managed to reduce me to this state again? I had come so far, only to be thrust back into
teenage girl, pining after a
but he didn‘t answer. Sol cut some flowers and went
was still there. She smiled at me as I
you,” I told her, still
he even bothered to come here
thanked her as I took the
I went to set the
spilling water all over my
Lola also cried
get a broom and mop.
hurried off to get the tools she needed to clean up my mess, and
Lola returned, I reached for the
me off. “You could hurt yourself. I’ll
want to injure myself, though I felt awful that I’d
wasn‘t thinking straight. I was a danger to myself
as
night passed, and I still
in the garden, looking for any sign of him while I pretended to prune the trees, but I didn‘t see any trace. No footprints,
was beginning to think that perhaps he hadn‘t actually
had decided I just needed to get on with my life. Whatever it was that had brought Ethan back into my life for those few fleeting moments, he‘d gotten
staring at nothing as Seraphine organized the drawers of clothing
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