Extraits

The door burst open and Mallory walked in. "Merit ! Are you all right? We came as soon as we heard you were here. And finished lunch, because we figured it would be a while."

I growled at her, showing fang.

She glanced at Ethan. " So, as expected?"

"Labor appears to make her grouchy" he said mildly.

"I hate everyone"

" No, you don't." she said, and edged onto the side of the bed, offered her hand.

I took it, squeezed hard. "Drugs" I said. "When it's your turn in here, get the damn drugs"

"He pushed me down, drove off. Jonah found me on the ground, rolling around like a turtle"

[...]

He smiled at me. "And you didn't look like a turtle. Maybe a wounded kangaroo? "

You can do this, Merit. I'll be here with you, and we'll get through it together. Then he squeezed my hand. Now buck up, and get it done.

*Together* my ass, I thought. But we'd talk about that later. For now, I had one final job.

"look what we did, sentinel"

I gave him a hard look.

"admittedly, your part was harder than mine".

I made a quite sound of agreement. I'd always found the idea that "we" were pregnant really weird.

I'd like to say I handled the rest of it with grace and a minimum of swearing. But that would be a lie. I curse like a Sailor the best of times, and childbirth, even if it has a happy ending, was not the best times. It was painful, sweaty, messy and terrifying times.

Catcher had resting Grinch Face.