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Dulsar… “Kiersten, are you alright?” Aiden’s voice whispered from behind her.
She had woken several minutes earlier, rolled away from her husband, and now clung to the edge of their bed. “Perhaps something I ate at the late meal isn’t agreeing with me. The room is tilting and my stomach is churning.”
She tried closing her eyes and swallowing several times to keep the nausea away. There was a quiet tap on their door. Aiden sat up and reached for the robe at the end of the bed.
“That will be Skyler. Early, even for her,” he said, glancing at the time on the screen in the corner of their chamber.
Tying the robe around his waist, he moved to the side Kiersten faced and helped her to sit up, which caused her pale face to turn a shade of green.
Quickly pulling her robe around her, he sai
