Ella

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We had dinner a little later, and Henry got to give Cora his shocked congratulations on her pregnancy. His eyes were wet, a little, at the thought of his second grandchild, but it was all for joy. It was a wonderful evening that we all spent together surprising after such a horrible morning.

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Tomorrow, I know, we have a lot to think about and decide. But tonight? Tonight I just want to sleep in my mate’s arms and get some rest under the knowledge that nobody is going to attack us and try to take my baby.

I’m tired, then, when Sinclair and I head back to our room with little Rafe in my arms, already asleep. A’s Sinclair opens the door for us I give a little wave to my sister and Roger, who are sleeping a few doors down.

“Aw,” I say, looking up at Sinclair as we walk into the room. “I’m jealous. I want to get knocked up.”

“What!?” Sinclair exclaims, laughing as he moves across the room to the little table where we’ve unpacked our clothes, eager to get ready for bed.

I pout as I move to the little makeshift cradle waiting by our bed that Henry instructed Sinclair’s men to make for us this afternoon, laying my sleeping baby down on the thin, firm mattress waiting there for him.

“I’m just a little jealous!” I declare, laughing a little.

over his head and coming over to me. I turn to my mate, eager, and wrap my arms around his neck, smiling up at him. “You do

want to be pregnant – at least, not

me so broadly that it brings out all the little crinkles around his eyes that I love. “Please explain, then, my love, the difference between the

just…” I shrug, “not be trying to get pregnant, and then one day poof! Surprise!” I

think, understand. But he wants

we hadn’t been thrown into that situation. But there was so much that was stressful about how Rafe was conceived

agrees. “I see. A little,…less romantic and intimate than it could

been so complicated for them, but there is something beautiful about them making that little miracle baby because

face and look up at

give you as many children as you want, Ella,” he murmurs softly, “and they will all be conceived in love. Rafe

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up at him. “I’m excited. It will happen one day.” And a memory flashes in my mind of the prophecy the priests showed me, of our little family of four. Could that really be possible? I mean, the eldest child in that vision was a dark–haired boy just like my sweet Rafe. Would the

“If you’re that eager to get knocked

pressing my body closer to his. But then I hesitate. Let’s wait, a little,” I say quietly, “before we think about a second child. Until all of this,” I say, waving a hand to encapsulate the bunker and all of the reasons why we’re here, “is sorted.

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