The Reunion After Seven Years

Nicole looked up at Kerr with a pained expression on her face. "Kerr?" Her voice sounded strained. "I'm hungry." She hadn't eaten a morsel since noon.

Ever since she had gotten pregnant, all she seemed to do was eat and no amount of rest was enough. She had just come back from her long walk though so, it was normal for her to be tired and hungry.

Kerr pulled her up gently and ran his fingers through her long hair. He walked her towards the dining room.

Kerr looked down at her flushed face and smiled. As long as she was safe, he was happy. Nothing that had happened before mattered at this point.

He helped her into the chair at the dining table and grabbed the spoon just as Nicole was reaching for it. Her pregnancy was making her wolf down food and Kerr insisted on feeding her slowly.

Harley was leaning against a wall at the other end of the room, watching them. "Where on Earth are you coming from? You look like a mess; what happened to you?" He sat at the chair on the opposite side of the dining table, as far from her as possible.

Being a doctor had given him severe mysophobia. He couldn't bring himself to sit closer to her as she ate.

Nicole frowned and looked up at Harley. "You find me disgusting, don't you? If you walked as much as I did by yourself, with a baby in your stomach, you would probably be dirtier than I am."

Nicole wasn't much bothered with how she looked, but with Harley's comments, she became very self-conscious. She looked down at herself. "Kerr?"

She had barely started her question when Kerr put a spoonful of porridge in her mouth.

"You don't need to worry about a thing. You're hungry and you need to eat. Staying healthy is the only important thing right now." He couldn't care less about how she looked and resented Harley for his comments.

Nicole felt a rush of love and chewed the food in her mouth happily.

While Nicole focused on her food, Kerr shot Harley a look wanting him to shut up.

the hint and kept

Jay is staying with Avery for the night. You should probably give him a call soon or he might not sleep too well tonight." Kerr put down the

to reach for the phone and give

to be pretty ignorant of everything that happened?"

way. The lesser she knows the better." Nicole's face was as clueless as ever. She knew

tell her about

it happened?" Harley had been wanting to ask him that

behind this. His first order of business was to make sure that no news of this got out. He couldn't let Nicole find out

and her pregnancy meant she was overly sensitive now. He didn't want to give her a reason to

her get some rest." With that, Harley walked

was in the middle of a little joke when she felt the hug. "You should get some

whispered this into her ear and Nicole hung up the phone and

any time to react and instead, picked her up and walked over to

looked at him, "Do you find me ugly

He took care of every little thing and wanted to make sure she didn't slip during her

know I don't think in that way. To me, you are always beautiful." He placed her in the

out today?" He wanted to try and figure out how

went out for a bit.

go out of her own kindness. If it hadn't been for that, I probably would have been taken to Moore." Nicole felt grateful, but was ignorant of

of her from Moore. He'd been threatening her with

that Kerr would agree no matter what she asked

to worry anymore." He wrapped her with a bath towel and carried her

at her. Picking up the crystal bracelet he had given her from the night stand, he put it on