Traded to His Enemy, Pregnant With His Heir novel · Chapter 23 of 48
Chapter 23: The Gown
"No," Ilya said.
He said it before I'd even sat up.
"I'll go," he said. "I'll take care of it."
"You'll take care of him."
"I'll take care of it," he said again, and his voice didn't change, and that was the problem.
I looked down at the baby asleep on my chest with her fist in her mouth.
Then at him.
"He's been standing in the rain for three hours," I said. "If you go down there, he gets to be the man who suffered for his daughter and the Russian beat him in a hospital parking lot. If I go down, he gets nothing. Not even that."
"You gave birth an hour ago."
"An hour and a quarter. I've walked patients to the bathroom thirty minutes after." I lifted her very carefully off my chest and held her out to him. "Take your shirt off."
He stared at me.
"Skin to skin," I said. "She needs somebody warm. You're the warmest thing in this building."
He unbuttoned his shirt with one hand.
He took her, both palms, and laid her on his bare chest against the burn-scarred hand, and she squirmed once and went still.
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