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“When you’re ready, I am here to listen.”
She smiled and kissed him again. “You have made me so happy.”
“We make each other happy and nothing—absolutely nothing—will separate us.”
She wanted to believe him, but her knowing told her otherwise although it was not always easy to understand her knowing. Perhaps there was more to it than what she had sensed.
She sighed, contented, and snuggled against him. “Remember that you promised me a whole night of lovemaking.”
“And so we shall, after a brief rest.”
“Just a brief one,” she said on a yawn.
His yawn matched hers. “Brief,” he repeated, and, within minutes, they were both asleep.
They woke sometime in the night and made love again, slower this time, though their climax was just, if not more, intense than the previous one.
They drifted off to sleep once again and woke just before daylight and joined quickly, as if starved for each other. They slept again, though briefly, then hurried to get dressed and be on their way though not before Trey took her in his arms.
“You feel all right?” he asked.
“I should not even know that I carry a child.” Her words made her realize their importance. “It would be better for none to know that I am with child.”
He looked ready to protest but hesitated a moment before speaking. “I see the wisdom in that since many would not understand, but I want you to know that I would shout it out for all to hear that you carry my son.”
She smiled though she cringed. “Another fact that would be best kept between us, at least for a while.”
He nodded and slipped his arms around her waist and drew her against him. “The birth will be an easy one?”
“I do not know.”
“I do not wish you to suffer.”
She chuckled. “That is something I agree with though pain is inevitable with birthing.”
He cringed. “The thought that you will suffer to—”
“Giving our son life will cause me no suffering,” she assured him. “I have attended many births, and while there is pain, there is joy. Every mother has smiled when the babe is placed in her arms.” She chuckled. “Perhaps it is because there is no more pain though I think it is more because of the small babe that grabs at the heart as soon as a mother holds her child in her arms. And I look forward to that moment when I hold your son in my arms.”
He looked about to ask a question, then thought better of it and stopped.
“Ask me,” she urged.
He tightened his arms around her. “Will I be there with you when you birth my son?”
“I do not know,” she said with a sad shake of her head.
“I tell you right now, wife,” he said adamantly. “I will be right there for you. Nothing will keep me away—not even the true king.”
She wrapped her arms around his neck. “That tells me much about you, husband, and pleases my heart.”
“Good; then know you and I shall have a good life together, and I will allow nothing or no one to interfere with it.”
She didn’t want to sense or know anything at that moment. She simply wanted to believe him, and so she kissed him, gently at first, but it turned heated all too soon and he rushed her to the bed, and there, with clothes hastily shoved out of the way, they made love.
It was a fast, intense joining, and though neither made mention of it, they both worried that it could possibly be their last, at least for a while.
It was well after sunrise when they took their leave, and it was a long tedious day of making tracks, backtracking, and making tracks again to confuse and frustrate the soldiers.
