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.”
she asked me, and I knew from the twinkle in her eye that she was
a face at her. “We‘re just friends,” I reminded her. I ran a
she said. “It
that made me feel.
in bed, pushing out my child with Seraphine‘s help, came to mind. The fuzzy form of a man next
on who it was next to me. Soren would be so supportive. He‘d probably manage to make it fun. Ethan, on the other hand… would he even
sitting down next to me. “I know giving birth is never easy, but you‘ll be just fine. I‘ll
out of my mind. “Oh, no. I
know. Your baby is healthy, and you‘re young and strong. I‘m sure this will be a perfectly normal birth where everything will go as planned, and before long, you will have your child with
I knew she had some other patients to see that day. I had other things to do
business, and I needed to check the
was also working on a baby blanket that I needed to hurry and finish,
least, that was what I told myself I was doing… but honestly, I
was looking
leaving the comfort of my own home. How had he managed to reduce me to this state again? I had come so
was like a teenage girl, pining
few times, but he didn‘t
I came in. “Do you need a vase, Miss
you,” I
he even bothered to come here if he wasn‘t going to
and I thanked her as I
went to set the vase
the floor, spilling
said as Lola also cried out. “I‘m so
broom and mop. Pregnancy can
off to get the tools she needed to clean up my
reached for the broom. “Let me
she said, waving me off. “You could hurt yourself. I’ll get it, Miss
to injure myself, though I felt awful that I’d created such a mess for her to have to clean
wasn‘t thinking straight. I was a danger to
as
passed, and I
the garden, looking for any sign of him while I pretended to prune the trees, but I didn‘t see any trace. No footprints, no lingering scent, no
to think that perhaps he hadn‘t actually come to see me
day after he‘d shown up in my garden, I had decided I just needed to get on with my life. Whatever it was that had brought
at nothing as Seraphine organized the drawers of
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