Too Late, Alpha: I Died Carrying Your Heir novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: The Spyglass
Marit's POV
Garrick was still waiting for my answer.
He stood at the edge of the sand with the lantern, and behind him the ice had gone pink in the first light.
I thought about everything I could say.
"She kicks at night," I said. "Around two, when the stove burns down."
His face crumpled.
"That's all you get. It isn't for you. It's because you asked like a person."
He nodded, and walked out onto the ice without looking back.
It was the first time I had been glad of that.
He didn't go far.
By noon he was a dark dot a hundred yards offshore, sitting on the lake with his lantern beside him.
The ice belonged to nobody, and he was keeping to the letter of my terms.
I left him there.
That night Lars made a fish stew, and I ate two bowls of it.
He sat across from me with his bad leg stretched under the table and told me about a deer that had stood in the road for an hour that afternoon, blocking his truck.
"You got out and argued with it," I said.
"I got out and asked it politely."
I laughed, and he looked pleased with himself for a full minute.
After the dishes he sat on the couch, and I sat down beside him, and then I was in his lap with my good hand in his hair.
He kissed me slowly, with his palm spread on my belly under his flannel shirt.
"She's awake," he murmured.
"She's always awake when you do that."
"I'll take it as a compliment."
His mouth moved to my jaw, and then to the bare scar on my throat, and I tipped my head back and let him.
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