The Dragon's Pregnant Mate (Shifter Dads, #4) by Chant Zoe

Author:Chant, Zoe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zoe Chant
Published: 2019-11-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12: Malachi

It was time to acknowledge it to himself: Malachi had it bad.

Watching Elizabeth be a better parent to Hayley than Amanda had been recently was the last straw. He realized only after a few minutes that he was sitting there at the table, letting his eggs get cold, while he watched Elizabeth eat with a dumb smile on his face.

When he looked over at Hayley, he saw her looking right back, eyebrows up. Caught. He frowned at her and applied himself to his food.

He hadn’t noticed it coming on. He’d been too focused on feelings that seemed pretty natural directed toward a pregnant woman in trouble: protectiveness, a need to see that she was safe and cared for.

And also the natural feeling of admiration and respect for a woman who had helped take down Oak Ridge’s dangerous enemy, and put herself at risk in the process. Who wouldn’t have wanted to help her?

But Elizabeth had turned out to be more than just what he’d known about her to start. She wasn’t simply a woman with the same goal as Malachi and the means to help carry it out. She also wasn’t just a damsel in distress.

Malachi had been caught hardest, he thought, by the way she was so determined to be a good person, a good parent to her baby, and so terrified that she wasn’t going to be able to.

It made him want to catch her hands, look her in those bright blue eyes, and make her understand that she didn’t have to work any harder than she already had. She was there. She was a good person who helped other people, who risked her life to take down a monster, who told his daughter that she should do whatever made her happy.

Who desperately needed to understand that she could rest. That the only hard work she needed to do right now was grow the tiny person inside her, because she’d already done everything she needed to do for other people.

“Well, law school is hard,” Elizabeth was saying to Hayley. “But even just having known you for a little while, I’m sure that you could do it.”

“Really?” Hayley was wrinkling her nose in suspicion.

“Really,” Elizabeth said confidently. “You’re plenty smart enough. And that’s not the big obstacle—it’s all about persistence. To get through it you have to be willing to work really, really hard for three straight years, and not give up even when it’s extremely frustrating. So if you think you can do that, then you’ll be fine.”

“Oh.” This was obviously not quite the picture of law school that Hayley had had in mind. “How is it frustrating?”

Elizabeth waved her hand. “A million weird things to learn, hundreds and hundreds of pages of reading to do every week—sometimes every night—unreasonable professors demanding things that seem impossible...it’s just grueling. If you’re willing to knuckle down and do the work, even when you just want to cry instead, then you’ll get through it. That’s the most important thing. Way more important than being smart.

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