Montana Homecoming (The Wildes of Birch Bay Book 6) by Kim Law

Author:Kim Law [Law, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781950908042
Publisher: J-Ko Publishing
Published: 2020-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The tick of the turn signal seemed extra loud as the truck slowed at the driveway. The silence had now stretched to twenty minutes, and Maggie wasn’t sure how much longer she could take it. Immediately following them getting caught with Cord’s hand on her belly—and with him standing far too close for someone who should be merely the brother-in-law of a good friend—Nick had burst into the room.

He hadn’t been allowed to take anyone back to see the babies yet, not until Harper had been moved out of recovery, but he did have pictures and videos to share. The babies, it turned out, were both girls. Both in the high five-pound range. And both of them had already started trying to feed.

Nick had been euphoric . . . and as Maggie had taken in all the excitement, she’d started crying.

At the sight of her tears, Cord had slid his hand to the middle of Maggie’s back. He’d stroked along her spine, clearly intending to soothe, but his touch had only increased the tightness filling Maggie’s chest. Being in the middle of such a supportive family made her more aware of what she wouldn’t have when she delivered. Her brother had said he’d come down—but he could be working. And her parents lived several hours away. And even if they could get away from the demands of their guests in time to be there, she couldn’t imagine her mother willing to do so. Her mother hadn’t stepped foot in a hospital in twenty-two years.

Maggie understood how unfair it was to let that bother her. Her mom had dealt with a lot. But what Maggie had learned in her twenty-nine years was that logic and emotions didn’t always line up.

After sharing that the babies’ names would be Ellie and Emma, and once the entire group had gotten a peek at the pictures and videos, Nick had retrieved his cell phone and taken his proud self back to be with Harper. And that’s when Maggie and Cord had slipped from the room. They hadn’t given anyone time to return to what they’d witnessed before. Instead, Cord had nodded toward the door, silently asking if she wanted to get out of there, and she’d beaten a path out in front of him.

Since then, there had been no speaking. And Maggie wasn’t sure what to make of that. Nor did she know what to make of whatever had been going on between them right before Nick appeared.

Cord considered her and their baby part of the family? She wasn’t sure what that meant.

He’d also touched her.

He’d touched her belly.

And he’d felt their baby move.

She gulped in air. Cord had left his hand on her stomach, the awe of feeling the baby moving obvious from the stunned expression that had washed over his face, and he hadn’t seemed to have a clue he’d been doing it right in front of his family.

The moment had been almost intimate. Only, they’d basically had their entire world watching.

She pulled in another deep breath.

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