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.”
asked me, and I knew from the twinkle in her eye that she was prying. “I know
her. I ran a hand over my belly. “Everything is okay with
“It really won‘t be
know how that made me
form of a man next to me came into view, but I wasn‘t quite sure who he was–was
would be so supportive. He‘d
me. “I know giving birth is never easy, but you‘ll be just fine. I‘ll be there with
images out of my mind. “Oh,
and you‘re young and strong. I‘m sure this will be a perfectly normal birth where everything will
to go finish packing her bag. I knew she
had business, and I needed to check
that I needed to hurry and finish, or it wouldn‘t be done in time for
went outside to pick some flowers. At least, that was what I
was looking
had he managed to reduce me to this state again? I had come so far, only to be thrust back into this
was like a teenage girl,
called a few times, but he didn‘t answer.
I came in. “Do you need a vase, Miss
be wonderful. Thank you,”
bothered to come here if he wasn‘t
I thanked her as
to set the vase on a table. It slipped from
all over the floor, spilling
I said as Lola also cried
broom and mop. Pregnancy can
she needed to clean up my mess, and I
I reached for the broom. “Let me
waving me off. “You could hurt yourself.
I felt awful that I’d created such a
straight. I was a
as
and I still
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 evidence that
perhaps he hadn‘t
decided I just needed to get on with my life. Whatever it was that had brought Ethan
the blanket, staring at nothing as Seraphine organized the drawers of
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