“After so much time, I welcomed a new start. I remember wishing I could be born again. As I stood looking at the newborn infants, one let out a deep piercing scream.
“All at once, your face—your beautiful, perfect face—came to me. The memory was so brief, I shouted with agony, willing it back. The black veil lifted and eventually everything came back in bits and spurts.”
He smiled and gently kissed her. “The look, the love, the excitement expressed in your face when you told me you were pregnant glowed from your eyes. In that briefest of moments, I remembered.”
All these lonely months he’d been in a strange hospital, wrestling nameless demons, struggling to regain his memory and his sanity.
“Don’t leave me again,” she pleaded with him, struggling with her tears. “I couldn’t go through this again.” Even as she choked out the words, she knew his own hell had been much worse than hers. Zane fought to live, but didn’t know for whom or why.
“Never again,” he promised, kissing her.
“You’re alive, alive,” she chanted, wanting to shout with joy. The beauty of that reality filled her heart and crowded her soul.
As soon as it was possible, they made love. Zane’s hands rested on her rounded stomach. Their child moved against him and his eyes widened as his gaze slowly traveled to her.
“A girl,” she whispered.
“Dr. Wilson told you?”
“No,” she told him with a happy, satisfied smile. “You did.”
His look was skeptical.
“I thought you had,” she amended, and brought his mouth down to hers. “If we have a boy, then all I can say is that we’ll have to try again.”
Her husband’s dark eyes sparkled. “Anything you say, sweetheart.”
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Debbie Macomber is a number one New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author. Her books include 1225 Christmas Tree Lane, 1105 Yakima Street, A Turn in the Road, Hannah’s List and Debbie Macomber’s Christmas Cookbook, as well as Twenty Wishes, Summer on Blossom Street and Call Me Mrs. Miracle. She has become a leading voice in women’s fiction worldwide and her work has appeared on every major bestseller list, including those of the New York Times, USA TODAY, Publishers Weekly and Entertainment Weekly. She is a multiple award winner, and won the 2005 Quill Award for Best Romance. There are more than 100 million copies of her books in print. Two of her MIRA Christmas titles have been made into Hallmark Channel Original Movies, and the Hallmark Channel has recently launched a series based on her bestselling Cedar Cove series. For more information on Debbie and her books, visit her website, www.DebbieMacomber.com.
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Just Married
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