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“I love the sound of that,” Landon whispered close to my ear.
ChapterThirty
ALLEY
Thump,thump, thump…
Our baby’s heartbeat pounded loud and strong, a joyous sound that filled the room. Landon and I had been in this spot once before and thought everything would be okay, and then it didn’t turn out that way.
I sent up a silent prayer to our angel Hannah.Mommy will never forget you and she loves you very much. Watch over your brother or sister for us, okay, baby?”I knew I wasn’t going to hear a response, but I hoped the prayer would be answered and heard. A frozen piece of my heart warmed when I spoke to her.
This was something I hadn’t been able to bring myself to do because of the pain, but now I knew how good it felt to talk to her and vowed to do it more often.
Feeling Landon squeeze my hand, I glanced over to see his smiling face. It lit up the whole room, bright as a summer’s day. The man was lethal all the time, but when he smiled it was like the whole world stopped and took notice.
It had taken me a couple of weeks to get an appointment with my Obstetrician after I had dragged my feet on reality, but it was good to have finally gotten in. I had changed doctors from the last time, but they had all my history and she had already gone over that with us before performing the ultrasound herself. I couldn’t bring myself to go back to the same place after what I went through last time.
“Everything looks great and the baby is doing wonderfully. You two should be welcoming your little one into the world around January 28th,” the doctor said.
I sighed in relief at her words. She had already expressed how sorry she was for our loss before, but that it didn’t mean there would be any complications this time. In the back of my mind, I knew that, but listening to her say it made it easier to believe.
Please let her be right.
“Thank you,” Landon’s smooth voice said in response.
“We got your bloodwork going and we will get you set up with your next visit,” she added and then rose from her seat. “You can get dressed now and then I will see you in my office again before you go.”
The door shut as she left and I just laid there for a minute, my gaze on Landon. “Are you happy?” I whispered.
“How can I not be,Mi Tesoro.Look at what you have given me.” He leaned over and kissed me gently on the lips. It was not a heated kiss like we had so often, but a soft expression of love. My body warmed at this touch and my own heart beat so hard I was surprised you couldn’t hear it echo through the room, even without a device.
Embrace, avoice inside me said softly.
“What do you think about going shopping for the baby room?” I asked Landon and watched as his eyes danced with joy.
We had talked about it and were staying at the house for now so we might as well get some ideas for the baby room. It was something I hadn’t gotten to do the first time, and although it may have been a little early, I thought it was another step forward for Landon and me both.
“Best plan ever, baby.”
* * *
We may have gone overboard.
As we walked into the house, bags on both our arms, more in the car, and deliveries set up for the following week, I decided we may have gone a little crazy. But it felt good and we had fun, believe it or not.
The girls may not like finding out that Landon was a damn good shopping partner. They wouldn’t like being replaced. But nobody could do that, although it would be funny to tease them about it. I chuckled at the thought.
“There’s that sound I love so much. I could spend the rest of my life hearing that and it would never get old,” Landon said, setting the bags down in the front entryway.
I followed suit and laid my stash down and then walked to Landon and wrapped my arms around his neck. Going up on my toes, I pressed my lips to his and showed him just what today had meant to me, without words. He seemed to get it and was all in.
It only had been a few weeks since the morning we looked at Hannah’s things, but it had been therapeutic for us both and we were slowly moving forward day by day. While I laid in the room listening to the sweet sound of my baby growing inside me, I thought about Hannah and my heart warmed for a moment instead of breaking into a million pieces.
Even though my heart was still aching, and I feared being pregnant again, somewhere down inside me, happiness swept through me as the little one in my belly grew.
Landon broke the kiss and I whined. Kissing him felt as freeing as riding his motorcycle and since he wasn’t going to let me do that for a long while, he would just have to make up for it. He had informed me there would be no rides until after the baby was born.
It was obvious he was going to be overbearing and protective. At times it was sweet and at other times it was annoying as hell. How was it that Jurnee, Summer, and I, all found men like this? But everyone was extremely content and happy.
