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Chapter 9

Kartik walked into the rooms at the old bar that had once been his riding place now it was their meeting place.

The leader s that stood in front of him was the same he had seen for years.

"Kartik, do you understand the mistake you have made? You disobeyed our orders and have now married the very woman we ordered you to get rid of."

"I left your order. I have died in this world and been sparred in the Realms. I came back for HER. Not to be a pawn in your game. And she has a name and you owe her your respect. She saved this world and the Realms. She harnessed the powers and contained them once again. My job is finished and I fully intend to never return to this meeting place or to the company of this group. Good day. I am going to return to my wife."

"What of your unborn child?"

Kartik cringed. He had hoped the boy would remain quiet about that.

"That child is mine and I owe you nothing. My family has given you the male descendants for generations. It ends now. That is my son or daughter that she is carrying and that child will remain with us and will not be your servant."

With that he turned and left the room, leaving the leaders and their guards with their mouths hanging open.

Gemma paced in their room unable to sit still. The baby hadn't moved since he had left and she hadn't stopped.

Her fingers turned her wedding band on her finger as she paced, when she heard the door to the boarding house shut, she jumped.

She waited when she heard footsteps in the hall.

She rushed to the door and threw it open to see her husband grinning at her. She let out a sigh of relief and gasped as the baby kicked her harder than ever. Almost as if it was saying 'I told you so mommy'.

Wrapped in Kartik's arms she never felt safer.

"I thought of a name for either. How about Calder for a boy, and Edlyn for a girl?"

Tears filled her eyes, she would never have thought that he would say something like that or even suggest a name, never in a million years.

She kissed him then pulling him as close as possible pulling him over sitting on the bed pulling him next to her. When they pulled away his lips never left her skin, kissing down the column of her neck reaching to unlace her dress.

"You've been in that dress too long"

She laughed at him helping him with her dress and trying to pull his shirt over his head. When the shirt finally came she gasped she had forgotten how beautiful his body was but she could never forget the pleasure and happiness that body and that man could give her.

Tears filled her eyes again thinking of the night before and their first night. Kartik pulled back to look at his now crying wife. He didn't even have to ask he just lay back pulling her next to him her head on his chest.

As her tears dried the exhaustion from the day and the worry hit her and her fell into a deep sleep her husband smoothing her hair whispering to her constantly telling her he loved her.

Just like the night before he lay there thinking of his baby and his sleeping wife in his arms. His thoughts drifted back to the little girl he had seen one of the first night they had spent together. The little girl had forever been in his dreams. The dreams had been simple flawless. The dreams usually showed he and his daughter laughing as he chased her around the lawn or them sitting reading her a bedtime story before she fell asleep.

These were the last thoughts that ran through his mind before sleep and the dreams of his daughter once again claimed his mind.

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