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Chapter 211

Eliora's POV "That goes on the left," Ezra said from the doorway with his arms crossed. "Not the right."Kian looked up from where he was crouching on the floor surrounded by flat pack pieces and an instruction manual he had stopped consulting twenty minutes ago. "The instructions says right.""The instructions are wrong.""Ezra—""The light comes from the left window." Ezra pointed at the window with the authority of someone who had clearly been thinking about this. "So the cot should face it. So Noah can see the light when he wakes up."Kian looked at the window. Then at the half assembled cot. Then at me.I pressed my lips together."He's not wrong," I said.Kian looked at the ceiling briefly. Then he picked up the pieces and moved them to the left without another word.Ezra nodded once. Satisfied. He came into the room and sat on the floor beside Kian and picked up a piece of wood and examined it. "What's this for?""The base," Kian said."It looks wrong.""It's not wrong yet. I

Chapter 212

Kian's POV "Kian.” A heavy breath followed, “I think it's time."I was sitting up before she finished the sentence. Her voice had a tone in it that my body recognised before my brain did. I looked at her in the dark. She was sitting up with one hand on her stomach and her face doing something controlled and focused."How far apart?" I was already pushing the duvet back."I don't know. I've had three. Maybe seven minutes?"Seven minutes. I was out of bed."Okay." I grabbed my phone from the nightstand. "Okay. Where's the bag?""Wardrobe. Bottom left." She said in between breaths.I got the bag. I got it on the first try which felt like a miracle at three in the morning. I put it by the door and turned around and Eliora was still sitting on the bed breathing through something with her eyes closed and her hand flat on her stomach.I crossed to her. "Talk to me.""I'm fine." Her eyes still closed. "It's passing. Just…. Give me a second."I sat beside her and put my hand on her back and

Chapter 213

Kian's POV "It's time."I turned from the coffee machine.She was standing in the kitchen doorway in her dressing gown with one hand on her stomach and her face doing something calm and certain that was completely different from four days ago. I put the coffee down.We looked at each other across the kitchen.Four days ago she had woken me at three in the morning and we had driven to the hospital in our pyjamas and come home two hours later laughing in a car park. This was not that. I could see it in her face. I could feel it in the room.This was it."Okay," I said.She nodded, “it's finally…. He is finally coming" she said with tears in her eyes.Then she breathed through something and gripped the door frame and I was already moving.---Mrs Halloway was there in eight minutes.Eliora had two contractions in the hallway before we made it to the door. I kept my hand on her back through both of them and she breathed and held on and did not make a sound except the controlled exhale

Chapter 214

Eliora's POV "You gave us a scare." Kian's voice was rough at the edges. He was sitting beside the bed with my hand in both of his, his head bent over it, and when he looked up his eyes were red. "I thought—" He stopped and shook his head. Pressed his lips to the back of my palm. "Thank God you're okay."I looked at his face. The exhaustion and the relief and everything he was not saying because he did not have the words for it yet.I understood that. I didn't have the words either. My body felt like it had been through something enormous because it had and the room was bright and my eyes were tired and everything hurt in ways I was going to deal with later."I'm sorry." My voice came out low and scraped thin. "I didn't mean to scare you.""Don't apologise." His grip on my hand tightened. "Don't you dare apologise."My eyes moved around the room. The machines. The bed. The midwife at the far end doing something quiet and efficient. The nurse near the door.No baby.My chest pulled

Chapter 215

Eliora's POV "Is he asleep?" Ezra stood at the door with Mrs Halloway's hand on his shoulder, his eyes already moving past me to the bundle in my arms. "I want to see him properly. Not just a peek.""He's asleep," I said. "Come closer."Mrs Halloway gave his shoulder a small squeeze and stepped back, letting him cross the room on his own. He walked slowly. He stopped beside the bed and looked.For a long moment he said nothing.He just looked at Noah's face, scrunched, sleeping, one fist near his cheek, with the focused concentration he gave everything important. His eyes moved over every part of him like he was taking inventory."He's small," he said finally."He's exactly the right size," I said. "All babies start out this small.""I wasn't this small.""You absolutely were," Kian said from the chair, smiling.Ezra looked unconvinced. He leaned in a little closer. "Can I touch him?""Gently," I said. "Just his hand."He reached out one finger carefully and touched the back of Noah'

Chapter 216

Eliora's POV "Slowly," Kian said, one hand hovering near my elbow as I came through the front door, the car seat with Noah in it balanced carefully in his other arm. "There's no rush.""I'm fine," I said. "I gave birth four days ago, not yesterday.""Four days is recent.""Kian.""I'm just saying." He set the car seat down gently on the hallway table and turned to look at me properly, "You can sit down the second you want to.""I want to see the house first," I said. "I haven't been inside it in four days. It feels longer."The house smelled like Mrs Halloway's cooking and something floral — she'd put flowers in the hallway, the kitchen, even one small vase on the stairs, like she'd decided the whole house needed to announce that something good had happened.Ezra came thundering down the stairs the second the door closed behind us."Is he here? Is he actually here?" He skidded to a stop in front of the car seat and peered in. Noah was asleep, one fist near his face, completely unboth

Chapter 217

Kian's POV "What time is it?" Eliora's voice came out thick with sleep, muffled against the pillow."Doesn't matter," I said, already moving toward the bassinet where Noah's cry had gone from a small complaint to a full demand in about four seconds flat. "Stay there.""Kian—""I've got him." I lifted him, settled him against my shoulder, and his cry softened slightly just from the change in position. "Go back to sleep."She didn't argue. That was new. Three weeks ago she would have insisted on getting up too, on doing it together, on not letting me handle it alone. Now she just murmured something that might have been thank you and turned back into the pillow, and I took that as a sign that whatever we were building here was actually working.I checked the clock on my way out of the room.Three forty seven.This was the fourth night this week I'd seen three forty seven exactly, like Noah had developed an internal preference for that specific minute and intended to keep it.---Downst

Chapter 218

Eliora's POV "Daddy's home!" Ezra's shout echoed through the hallway before the front door had even fully closed, his feet already pounding toward it."Wait for me," I called, though I knew it was pointless. Noah, beside me, didn't run. He always watched first, decided, then moved with purpose. By the time he reached the hallway, walking rather than sprinting, Ezra was already attached to Kian's leg."Hi Daddy," Noah said, holding both arms up.Kian crouched down immediately, scooping him into the same hug as Ezra, and for a second we were all tangled together in the hallway, Ezra wrapped around his neck, Noah's small hand resting flat against his father's chest like he was checking something was still there, me with my arm around all of them at once."This is a lot of love at once," Kian said, laughing into Ezra's hair."You deserve it," I said. "How was work?""Fine." He kissed my forehead, then my lips, brief and warm, before turning his attention to Noah, who was still holding o

Chapter 219

Eliora's POV "Is this for me?" Noah held the book carefully, both hands, the way he held everything he considered valuable."It is," Lydia said, settling into the armchair with the kind of ease that still surprised me sometimes, how natural this had become, her in my house, in my chair, with my children climbing toward her without hesitation. "I thought you might like it. It's about a fox who's afraid of the dark.""I'm not afraid of the dark," Noah said."No," Lydia said, smiling. "I didn't think you would be. But the fox is, and he learns not to be. I thought that might be nice."Noah considered this with his usual seriousness, then climbed up onto the arm of her chair and opened the book himself, flipping to the first page with the careful concentration he gave most things."Read it to him," I said. "He won't ask, but he wants you to.""I'm asking," Noah said, without looking up."There he is," Lydia said, laughing, and pulled him gently into her lap.Ezra, who had been hovering

Chapter 220

Eliora's POV "Is this what you wanted to tell me at dinner the other?""Yes."Kian sighed. "I'm sorry. I brushed it off till I forgot about it.""It's fine." I sunk harder into the bed and sighed, "what do we do about them?""Maybe a dinner would help," Kian said, three nights after the disaster in the living room, his voice carrying the particular optimism of someone who hadn't yet learned that some fires didn't go out with more fuel. "Get them in a room together properly. With food. Structure. Maybe it'll smooth things over.""Or it'll make it worse," I said."It won't.""You don't know that.""I think if we just give them the chance to actually talk—""They've had decades to talk, Kian."He looked at me like I was missing the point, which I probably was, in his eyes, and I let it go because some part of me wanted to believe he was right. Because hope was easier than the alternative, and because watching him try to fix things had always been one of the things I loved about him, eve

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