The Ones On The Way
HANNAH’S POV:
The doctor arrived by eleven.
The twins had gone to school. I had made breakfast normally and done the normal morning things and Andrew had told me something about how muscle memory worked while he was cating his toast and I had listened to all of it with ninety percent of my attention. Amelia had done her hair at the kitchen counter again and I had let it go because I was thinking about other things. Elijah had stood at the island with his coffee and watched me with the expression he was doing his best to keep neutral.
After they left for school he said, “How long have you felt like this?”
“A few days,” I said.
“A few days,” he said.
“I wanted to be sure before I said anything,” I said.
He nodded. He understood that. He understood most things about me by now.
The doctor was calm and careful and afterwards confirmed what I had been starting to know.
And then she said the second part.
“There are three,” she said.
I looked at her.
“Three,” I said.
“Three,” she confirmed.
I turned to look at Elijah.
Elijah looked at me from across the kitchen with bright eyes. “Five children,” he said.
“Five children,” I confirmed.
“Andrew and Amelia are going to coordinate against us,” he said.
“Andrew will started planning the moment we told him,” I said. “I guarantee it.”
“He’d say twenty seconds,” Elijah said.
“Exactly,” I said.
He crossed the kitchen and put his arms around me and I leaned into him and he said, quietly, right against my ear, “Hannah, thank you so much for giving me a second chance in your life and a first chance to experience the pregnancy and to be there when they are born. We are going to be so okay my love. I am so happy I am part of your life. I regretted all yhat I did to you in the past and I will make sure you don’t regret giving me a second chance in your life.”
“I know,” I said. “I have always known Elijah.”

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