The Omega's Dearest Baby by Louise Bourgeois

Author:Louise Bourgeois [Bourgeois, Louise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Emily was lying on her back on her sheepskin on the bedroom floor when Noah pushed the door open. “Hello, Emmie,” he said. “Where’s your dada?”

She smiled at him and pulled her shoulders up a little, and he knelt down and blew a raspberry on her tummy, making her smile even more.

“I’m here,” Vincent’s voice said, and Noah turned his head to one side and peered under the bed.

Vincent was wedged under the far side of the bed, electric drill in his hand.

“What?” Noah asked. “Why?”

“Grab Emily, I’m about to use the drill and it makes her jump.”

Noah lay down on the floor and picked Emily up and put her on his chest. “There, there,” he said to her soothingly as the drill whined and she jerked.

When the drill stopped, Noah said, “What exactly are you doing?”

Vincent appeared around the bottom of the bed, drill and toolbox in hand. “I’m attaching the bed to the wall studs with brackets.”

Comprehension dawned on Noah. “We did do some damage then? Last night, that horrible noise was something structural?”

Vincent put the drill and toolbox on the bed and took Emily off Noah’s chest. “Have a look down the back of the bed.”

Noah clambered across the bed and looked down behind the back of the bedhead. One of the sheets of wall cladding had split completely and was partially caved in too. “Uh oh. Guess we were really going for it.”

“Yep. If we ever sell the house, I’ll have to reclad this room.”

Noah hid his smile by examining the damage behind the bed again. He was always touched when Vincent called the house ‘theirs’.

“How was the interview?” Vincent asked when Noah stood up again. “How’d it go?”

Noah sat back down on the bed and took Emily again. “It went really well.”

Emily made a contented noise as she accidentally found her fist with her mouth, and Noah kissed her dark hair where it was starting to curl. “Good to be working again?” Vincent asked, a smile warming him through as he watched Noah and their daughter together.

Noah smiled and nuzzled Emily’s hair. “It was great...”

***

Willa had been delighted to see Noah again, and had actually squealed over Emily, along with all of her office staff. She’d kissed Noah’s cheek, ran a critical eye over him, no doubt listing complaints about scruffy, too large jeans and baggy shirts away for future reference. She’d also not asked any difficult questions about Emily, beyond, “Is she yours?”

She had never believed that Noah was in rehab, Noah knew that from her emails insisting he return to work as soon as possible. Now, Noah wasn’t sure what sort of conclusions she had drawn when he carried Emmie into her office, but he was sure they weren’t the right ones.

She had held Emily while he went through the paperwork.

She didn’t lecture him about his break up from Kaycie either, much to his relief. Or about his future plans. Whatever loss of status he had suffered career-wise had certainly made her easier to deal with.

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