Alpha’s Rue: His Shunned Luna (Athena Enchanted) novel Chapter 457

Chapter 457

“I can worry,” she groans. “s what parents do, no? You’re worried too, so why the double standard?”

“You’ve got a lot on your plate.”

“So do you!”

“Calm down.” I coo.

“You’re doing it again!” She snaps. “I’m very calm. You are the problem here. You think I need to be babied, you have peopl walking on eggshells around me, and you’re walking on shards of glass, but it’s not helping me. I feel even more vulnerable feel weak when you do that, and it’s because that’s how you see me now. If you don’t think I’m capable of handling then I do see us having a child together, not now.”

“I’m sorry, I will do better, Aeliana,” I say, my tone pleading. “It’s just a little hard for me after everything you’ve been through, I’ve put through enough, so I want to make sure nothing else-”

“I can’t change what happened to me, King.” She swallows, a familiar pain twinkling in her gaze. I feel it in my bones. I can barely look at her now. “I’m sorry if it’s affecting you, but this shit always happens to me. How do you think I feel? You want to move on from it, and I’m trying, okay? I really am, and I want to get better for my baby. I want to do everything I can, too.”

“I know,” I nod. I’ve been a little too overprotective lately, and again, I thought I was doing what’s right for her, but she hate “I won’t hide anything else from you, and if I treat you with more caution than necessary, I need you to smack me in the face.

“What?” She blinks. “Are you crazy?”

“It’ll be a reminder that I’m acting crazy, and I’ll drop it,” I tell her.

She stares me up and down, “I’ll tell you.” She frowns. “And on some occasions, I will definitely punch you in the face.”

“I’ll call the doctor back in, and we can hear everything together” I tell her, rising to fetch Doctor Bridget again. I find Bridge waiting at the reception, and she’s more than understanding of why we had to stop before.

She preps Aeliana a second time and this time I stay within my limits. She shows us the baby again, barely visible on the monitor, but it’s there. I’ve seen a couple of ultrasound images, and years ago, when my mom had my youngest sister, I went her first ultrasound with her. She wasn’t exactly further along than Aeliana is, but I remember Vittoria being bigger than our baby looks.

“Baby looks great,” Bridget says.

“But?” Aeliana trails off.

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“For growth,” she tells her. “We should see a significant change, and I’ll be able to see the fetal pole more clearly.”

“What if there’s no change?” Aeliana chokes. What if tay body isn’t growing him properly because of the things it’s been through? I was already pregnant wifen they electrocuted me.”

When they what? Who?

“You were electrocuted?” Bridget gasps. “How extensive was the impact? Was it brief?”

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