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She smiled, "That would be good, but please don't worry. I never had much trouble having children…" she sighed. The memory of losing her other two children came to haunt her now. She looked to the heavens, she would see them one day, in heaven, she knew that and it gave her a new peace.
He looked down at her now as a hint of a smile touched his lips. "There is a saying in your Bible, "If God be for us, who can be against."
"Yes, how did you know of that?" She asked as she rose up to look into his eyes.
"I have read much of your Bible. It is a good book, it teaches peace, love, and understanding. This man, Jesus, that saved us from sin, he was a man of peace. Because I have read for myself, your God has become my God."
"I am glad of that…" She reached to kiss his chin. "I love you Hawk, with all my heart."
His smiled widened now confidently. "You love is all I need…and God's."
"Oh Hawk, I do believe that you were sent to me. Our love was meant to be. It is just sad that others cannot see it."
"We will be fine…for he will watch over us as he has already done many times." Hawk concluded. "We will build our home here. And I will protect you and our children from all who oppose us. Bended Knee is going to stay with us."
"Oh, that's wonderful." Eve sighed. "So, now we have our first friend…"
"Yes, sleep now my love…rest. You must take care of your body, and nourish it well." He smiled.
"You want a boy or a girl?" She asked as she cuddled against him again.
"I just want a healthy child. It matters not. I will love either."
She smiled. "I still can't believe we are married…"
"It pleases you?" He asked with a knowing smile.
"Yes," she kissed his jaw once more. "Very much so. I feel like God has blessed our marriage."
"It is good, yes?"
"It is very good."
As the fire grew smaller, they cuddled and went to sleep. It was a good sleep, for they were all very tired, and yet very happy too.
Chapter Twenty
It took the rest of summer and into the fall to clear the land and build the houses. Matthew had become a great help to Hawk and Bended Knee and the three of them worked constantly to improve the land and set up boundaries for gardens and crops and their homes.
"It is good my friend." Bended Knee said one afternoon as they rested and drank water to replenish themselves. "But we will need horses and mules."
Hawk's eyes lit. Yes, we must attend to that."
That afternoon he told Eve that he and Bended Knee were going to scout out wild horses in the area.
"I guess we do need some, don't we?"
"Yes, horses can be vital when one must go many miles to trade and to haul things back and forth. So we'll see what we can find."
"You'll have to break them yourselves, won't you?"
"Yes, but that is half the fun of it." He smiled.
The next day he and Bended Knee were up early, getting the ropes and things they would need to take with them. They'd already built a small lean to, and that would have to be the barn until one could be built.
The early morning they spent tracking a small herd. When they finally came across them that afternoon, they found about twelve of them in a boxed canyon. Working together, he and Bended Knee began blocking their exits to the canyons. However, the fun had just begun because in order to keep them, they would need to break them too. So Bended Knee went first and worked the first two and within an hour or two had them settling down. Hawk was next and he took on the stallion of the bunch. He was harder to break for he had a fierce spirit, but Hawk was gentle with him and before nightfall, the animal had given in. There was only one more to break but it was easy for it was a young filly and had a gentler spirit. As nightfall came, they had roped and broke four horses and were satisfied for the time being. The horses would need to be trained and worked with before they were ridable, but it wouldn't take long. Both Hawk and Bended Knee were expert horsemen, had they not known what to do, to settle them, it would have been a week before they got them in a ridable shape. Still much work to do with them before anyone could ride them. At least now, they would not break loose and run away.
It was late when they arrived home and there was still a lamp on.
