“Ugh.” Raena groaned, rubbing down at her belly. “Is this payback, darling? I hope it won’t happen again before you come into the world. I want to meet you properly.”
She kept caressing her stomach when she felt another vicious kick that made her grunt. Ever since she woke up four days ago, she had barely slept from all the movement in her belly. Lying down didn’t help, walking didn’t either—nothing helped! It was as if the tiny new life inside her had been saving up energy and was now determined to use it all by battering her from the inside out.
“It’s alright, it’s alright, Mommy’s here,” she said, still patting her belly. Her smile slowly faded as those words echoed in her head. She hadn’t thought about it before, but that was exactly what her mother used to say when she found Lydia c
