The Wolf's Wife (The Wolf's Peak Saga Book 1) by Patricia Blackmoor

Author:Patricia Blackmoor [Blackmoor, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

I had never seen Jasper so excited. He was like a giddy child, and I think he would have been jumping up and down if he hadn’t been trying to stay composed. Our entire trip home he kept his hands on me, either around my shoulders or on my belly.

I myself didn’t know how to feel. I hadn’t ever really thought about having children. The last few years I had been so preoccupied caring for my father that the idea of caring for someone else had been too far out of reach to ever cross my mind. That, coupled with no men ever pursuing me, meant children had seemed so far on the horizon that it was never a consideration. At the moment, I was only feeling numbness.

At the very least, Jasper managed to control his elation while we were in public. He had a silly, wide grin on his face that drew a few looks, but he kept his hands mostly to himself. It wasn’t until we were in the carriage on our way back to Wolf’s Peak that his hands returned to my belly.

“I just can’t believe it,” he marveled, rubbing at my belly through dress.

“We don’t even know for sure,” I reminded him, although I was fairly certain. My cycle had been the same since I was fourteen. In the chaos of the last few weeks I hadn’t noticed I was late, and if I had I probably would have attributed it to the stress of adjusting to my new life.

“You are. I know you are,” he said. “I can feel it.” He bit his lip.

“Isn’t it the women that usually have this intuition?”

I was trying hard to not let Jasper get ahead of himself. He was so happy, and if it turned out this was a false alarm, I didn’t want him to be crushed. At the same time, I was still absorbing everything. My body was frozen, and I was not really sure what emotions I was supposed to have. The only one that seemed prevalent was shock, which kept me somewhat emotionless.

Jasper didn’t seem to notice my hesitation, which meant that I had to say something as we neared the house.

“Jasper,” I said slowly “would you mind if we kept this private, between us, for now?”

“If that’s what you’d like,” he said. “Is there a particular reason?”

“I just want to be certain before we tell anyone.”

“Of course,” he nodded. “You’re absolutely right. I’ll call for a doctor to come visit and do an examination. Once we get the confirmation, then we’ll tell people.”

“I can agree with that. However, it’s so early. How on earth can they tell? I remember when my father was practicing, they always had to guess.”

Jasper wrapped his arm around me, pulling me close and planting a kiss on my forehead.

“A lot has changed since then,” he said. “Our doctors have these wonderful stethoscopes that can hear the baby’s heartbeat.”

My eyes grew wide. “That’s amazing.”

He kissed me on the top of the head.

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