Sex, Love, and Aliens, Volume 2 by Imogene Nix

Author:Imogene Nix
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781940744803
Publisher: Beachwalk Press, Inc.
Published: 2015-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

Epilogue

The sky was such a wonderful blue. Pregnancy hormones made Briz feel everything more. Her mother said she was feeling like this because she was feeling with two hearts, but Briz knew the science behind her mood swings and was glad she’d be back to normal soon.

Her child was due in less than a month. She’d let her mother talk her into keeping the child within her body instead of having it incubated safely in a hospital. When she had trouble sleeping or moving she wished she’d just gone to the hospital during her third month of pregnancy like a sensible Metrician woman.

Matek and her father were arguing. The closer she came to her due date the more out-of-sorts the men in her life seemed. Guilt for her husband’s abandoned quest tormented her. She saw pain etched on his handsome face when he didn’t know she was watching. Matek claimed he’d given up on revenge, but she knew the desire was still aflame inside him.

“They worry for you. Your father almost lost me, and he’s afraid for you. Matek loves you very much and seeing you uncomfortable bothers him,” her mother said as they sat together in the prayer garden, watching the men.

She’d given into her mother and had started daily prayers again. If the ancestors really did bless those who remembered their names, she wanted her baby to have all the protection possible.

“I miss Xev. I wish he hadn’t decided he had to leave us,” Briz muttered.

“He feared for his life, but more so for us. The people who would kill him would not want witnesses. I miss him too. I’ll always be grateful to him for talking to his father and convincing him that letting Matek claim you would look much more benevolent than killing you both, basically committing genocide times two, on top of what was happening to the colonists. Paki had no idea how reviled he’d made himself across the coalition with his treatment of the Talorian people until his son told him.”

“Do you think the king was happy to see Xev alive?” Briz asked.

“I do. Losing you would be terrible. I’m sure Paki felt the same way when he thought his son was dead. I still hope Xev will come back one day, maybe once his father is dead and the threat is diminished.” She rubbed Briz’s belly. “You should go upstairs and rest. Don’t be foolish like I was while pregnant and overdo it.”

Briz started to rise, but before she could her husband was at her side, helping her up. They’d had a real wedding once her father had calmed down and they’d arrived safely back at Metricia. She’d discovered she was pregnant and knew it had happened during that wonderful first night.

She’d left home thinking she never wanted to marry and have a child and returned claimed and pregnant. Her mother must have really prayed hard to get her wish. Briz would never admit it, but she was glad. Belonging to Matek made her happier than anything, even piloting a new ship.

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