FAITHFUL (The Mountain Man's Babies Book 10) by Frankie Love

Author:Frankie Love [Love, Frankie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Jonah

I run to labor and delivery, desperate. The day came when I wasn’t here. After how many months of sitting by her side, holding her hand all night long, she wakes up.

“Tanner,” I pant, rushing into the waiting room. “Tell me she’s okay.”

His face breaks into a smile — the same smile I saw when Virginia gave birth to their twins this September.

“She’s okay. I just saw her. The nurses are with her right now. She’s in shock, Jonah. It’s a lot to absorb.”

I nod. I’ve spent months preparing, imagining this day, the day our baby was born — but it was my deepest prayer that Faith would be out of the coma to behold the miracle herself. And somehow it came true. The labor pain triggered something in her subconscious and she woke up.

But for Faith, this is all so much to process.

“And her words, was she…” Our greatest fear has been that when Faith wakes her brain activity will have changed. So many people never regain full functionality.

Tanner chokes on a sob, pulling me into the first hug he has even given me. “She’s perfectly healthy, Jonah. My little girl was all there. Not missing a beat, though panicked over the baby. But it’s been hardly any time. Once she sees you,” he says, wiping his eyes. “Once she sees you and holds the baby. She’ll be okay.”

“The baby…” I have been so focused on Faith that I didn’t ask about our child.

“Jonah, breathe. It’s okay. Everyone’s healthy. The baby is in her room, go on, and go meet your family.”

I nod, in a state of shock, barely registering that Virginia and their children are here.

“We all peeked in her room for a moment, but we didn’t linger, knowing she needs her energy for the baby.”

Clover gives me a big hug.

“Can you believe she had the baby on her birthday? November first, isn’t that a crazy coincidence?”

Crazy is one way to put it. But I know it is no coincidence. Nothing about Faith and me has been by accident.

All of Faith’s siblings and I have grown close over the last few months. Once they realized I wasn’t going anywhere, they latched on. I’ve been fishing on my lake with her brothers, Levi and Cash, and her sisters, Lily, Willa and Clover helped Josie and the other women on the mountain with setting up the nursery.

“She was so happy to see us,” Clover says. “But she’s gonna be so much happier to see you.”

I walk to the hospital room door with nerves. Suddenly my stomach is all twisted, the moment I’ve imagined for so long, finally here. Faith in my arms again, our baby between us. It’s all I’ve been envisioning. Gratitude swells through me. How goddamn lucky we are, to have our Faith, here again, whole.

I step into the room, and there she is. She’s lying in the hospital bed, a swaddled baby in her arms. Our baby. A nurse is with her, helping, and I know

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