Traded to His Enemy, Pregnant With His Heir novel · Chapter 48 of 48
Chapter 48: The Key on Both Sides
He was gone for ten minutes.
Galina timed it on the clock over the door, with her arms folded and her lips moving.
When he came back his eyes were red and his face was washed.
His hair was wet at the front where he'd put it under a tap.
He didn't say where he'd been.
He came to the bed and held out his hands, and I gave him his son.
He held him in both palms the way he'd once held his daughter.
Then he bent his head and said something to him in Russian, so low only the baby and I could hear it.
"Your uncle would have taught you every bad thing I won't. I'll have to do it myself."
Misha yawned in his face.
Galina blew her nose.
We named him in June, in the little gold church in Brighton, on a Sunday so hot the candles bent.
The steps outside had been scrubbed.
You could still see two white chips in the stone of the bottom one, if you knew where to look, and I knew.
I walked up past them with my son in my arms and didn't stop.
The church was full to the doors.
The brigadiers stood on the right with their wives.
This time the wives had brought every child they had, in white socks and clip-on ties.
The nurses from my night shift stood on the left, with my charge nurse in front in a hat.
Gianluca's mother sat at the end of the front row in grey, with a cake box on her knees.
And at the very back, by the candle stand, a sandy-haired man from Broadway stood with his hands folded and his head down.
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