Harlequin Presents November 2021--Box Set 2 of 2 by Carol Marinelli

Author:Carol Marinelli
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

IT WOULD HAVE been impossible to hide the fact that she’d been crying when she finally left the hospital room, so Jenna didn’t bother trying. Thankfully, after her dramatic entrance and results, the nurses appeared comfortable assuming she was going to be fine.

Had it been worth it? Issuing an ultimatum to Sebastian like that—putting everything she wanted out there on the line. She thought so, even if inside she felt like a thousand tiny pieces of dull shattered glass scattered across asphalt.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s... she thought idly, suddenly very clear on the fact that she needed some air, fresh air, not the recycled stuff circulating inside the hospital.

Outside the maternity ward now, strolling through the regular hospital, the word king bounced around in her head giddily.

She had ignored phone calls from the king. Multiple.

She stopped in her tracks, in the middle of the hallway between the chapel and an elevator bank. She needed to call Mina.

Changing course, she found the nearest courtesy phone and dialed quickly. And because she didn’t just belong, she didn’t just matter—rather, she shone wherever she went and made an irrefutable place for herself wherever she wanted—she was the kind of woman who had the queen’s personal direct number memorized.

Mina picked up before the completion of the first ring.

“Hold on, I’ve got to get Hel on the line,” she said, not giving Jenna a chance to protest.

Jenna smiled, the sound of her friend’s voice and her rush to do things right as soothing to her soul as her mother’s homemade chicken soup.

The call was short, her friends somehow sensing the delicate, easily tired nature of her new enlightenment, but it was more than enough. They would work out the details in the months to come, but she was returning to the queen’s guard—and receiving all the associated maternity leave and pay.

She would need it now that she had drawn her line with Sebastian.

Stepping into the gray toned drizzle of the day was the final reset she needed.

She had come out a side entrance, one that faced the rising rolls of hill that disappeared into fog that obscured the road to Redcliff.

Misty and green, quilted with distant farmsteads, much like her own family’s, the view was one of her favorites in all of Cyrano—the view of home. Tourist brochures extolled the beaches and wine country, and locals adored the big city, but Jenna thought the sloping green landscape of the near interior leading all the way up to the upper reaches of the cliffs, was the most beautiful stretch of land of all.

Staring at it, her hair and dress and coat growing damp in the increasing rain, it wasn’t enough that she could feel his memory in her body, she also saw Sebastian everywhere.

She saw him in the colors, in the harsh planes and valleys, in the red in the clay-rich soil. In the earliest days of Cyrano, Redcliff lands had extended all the way to the coast, including her family home.

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