Excerpt Confrontation 2
He stopped then and his eyes caught mine. "My daught..." he began.
I cut him off, "or son - there is no sure way of knowing at this point."
"You mean you're... we're going to have a... how?"
"Yes, I am, we are, and I seem to remember you being there for the how. And being as I don't mean to raise our child on my own you'd better not die on me before I get back do you hear me?" Someone had heard me, or perhaps 'twas the sound of his voice, our child began kicking me. I moved so that I could put Tijer's hand on my belly. "See. 'Tis two against one. I'm going, you are living, and that is the end of it."
I made him as comfortable as I could, gave him one more kiss, and then I rode west as fast as I could - as if my life depended upon it. In a way it did.
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