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“Julianne?”
Her eyelids fluttered open She looked at hihter is here She’s beautiful”
Julianne didn’t ain
“It hurts,” she whispered
“Hold on I’ll get someone” Gabriel called the nurse
After the nurse adjusted Julia’s intravenous, Gabriel picked up the baby
“Darling, hter She’s beautiful And she has hair” He held the baby up so Julia could see her froaze ide and unfocused before she closed her eyes
He cradled the baby against his chest once again
“Sweetheart? Can you hear me?”
“It will take a while for her to come around But she’ll wake up eventually” The voice of the nurse broke into Gabriel’s s, as he wondered anxiously if Julia was unhappy about how the baby looked
He placed the child back in her bassinet and sat next to it, keeping a watchful eye on his wife He was never going to let her out of his sight again
His iPhone chirped with a couple of texts, and he quickly checked it Richard and Rachel wereexcellent tiratulations and their love
And Katherine Picton restated her insistence that she be naodmother She even promised a rare manuscript of Dante’s La Vita Nuova as an induce Roll with his phone and quickly e to tell Katherine that no inducement would be required
“She has hair?” When Julia finally awoke, the first thing she noticed was the dark strands peeking out from under the baby’s purple knit cap
“She does Lots of hair Darker than yours” Gabriel grinned and placed the baby on Julia’s chest
She unwrapped the baby and peeled back her gown, placing her daughter skin against skin The infant iled into her ht he’d ever seen
“She’s beautiful,” Julia whispered
“Pretty like her entle kisses to the baby’s head “I don’t think so She has your face”
Gabriel laughed “I don’t know about that I’m not sure she looks like either one of us, except that she seeest eyes you’ve ever seen, but she doesn’t like to open them”
Julia lifted her head to exa her even closer
Gabriel watched her with concern “Are you in pain?”
She grimaced “I feel as if I’ve been sawn in half”
“I think you were”