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His jaw set, and he nodded, sitting down heavily on the chair beside me

The next hour was a ind as the doctor ca me to the room where he performed an ultrasound A few minutes later, he came over with a tiny strip of paper, four pictures of my womb inside A tiny blob was in a corner, and he pointed to it

“That is your baby,” he said “It looks like you are about five weeks pregnant and it’s doing fine”

Aiden and I curled together, staring at the paper as the doctor left Aiden leaned over, pressing a kiss to the top of my head, and I leaned up to look at hiain just hours ago stretched across my face

“I love you,” Aiden said “I love you, and I will be here for you and our baby”

“Our baby,” I repeated “Ours”

“Ours,” he said and leaned down to press a gentle kiss to my lips

“I love you too,” I whispered

“Always”

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Aiden

It’d been a week since we got back to my cabin after Desiree was released from the hospital She was only there for a few hours, but those few hours changed my world forever The news and the expressions of love she shared with me felt like someone had lifted a black veil off the visions of ht that I would be happy to live in solitude in a cabin in the mountain Now, I kneouldn’t be alone and would have a family to surround me

Desiree’s rental had been let go since the landlord wasn’t entirely happy about the front door and abeing broken I offered to pay for the daes, but I also had another plan for her Rather than try to talk the landlord into letting her stay, I offered another option: that she move in with me