Tracker's Heart (Hemlock Wolf Pack: Life in the Happily Ever After Book 3) by Maggie Hemlock

Author:Maggie Hemlock [Hemlock, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-06-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Logan

Two months into carrying my egg, the around-the-clock sickness had abated, but I started to feel pregnant. The weight came on around my hips and belly. I missed coffee in all its blessed forms. There were mixed thoughts on whether coffee could penetrate the shell of a dragon egg in utero, but I wasn’t taking any chances. Eventually the baby would come and I’d down a couple ice coffees to balance things out. The baby’s weekly ultrasounds all showed the egg growing a tiny bit each time. We had a healthy egg on the way, but no timeline for when it would want to come out. Besides, the bloodshakes were almost as energizing as the coffee and they had a unique mystery ability to calm my stomach down.

The summer sun beat down on us and humidity buzzed across Hemlock Campus. Inside our house, we were cool and protected, but I still didn’t want to leave the nest. There was something cozy about cuddling up with Jessie to read or watch videos on our phones while Jessica ran back and forth playing and coming up with her next grand idea for what she might be when she grew up. Currently, she’d either be a dinosaur or a racecar driver. She’d dropped the ballerina idea because she didn’t like tutus. She said it wasn’t fair that girls had to wear them, and boys didn’t. I agreed with the kid but wasn’t about to challenge the dress code of a class my kid wasn’t even in.

It was a Friday night and Jessica was off to Delli’s for a sleepover. Her friend still wanted her to take ballet with her, but the girls had worked it out one way or another as small kids are like to do.

“I can’t remember the last time we had a Friday night alone,” Jessie laughed as he settled down into the nest with me.

“Probably fifty years ago,” I teased him.

“Nah. For our fifth we’re going somewhere quiet,” he laughed.

“Not going to jump off a dragon and plummet toward the ground for no reason?” I smirked.

“Probably not. With our luck the dragon would see something shiny and dive for the ground knocking us both off in the process.”

“What? Are we asking Clarence Moonscale to take us?”

“Seriously, though,” Jessie said a moment later when our laughter had died. “Somewhere quiet.”

“What did you have in mind?”

“A cruise or something.”

“Ah, have you not planned or not wanting to ruin a surprise?” I asked, snuggling close to him.

“That’s still pretty far away,” he ran his fingers over my belly. “Anything we come up with now is probably possible even before then.”

“Do you need a vacation?” I asked him.

We didn’t travel much for pleasure. We’d been down south a few times to visit my family, but most of the time it was family functions or educational trips.

“Just tired,” he nuzzled his forehead against my shoulder.

“Me too. Should we call it an early night?”

“No, because we’re never going to be alone again,” he laughed.

“Are

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