Chapter 48
After lunch, Tessa started to have stronger Braxton-Hicks contractions than she had ever felt before, which sent everyone into a bit of a spin. Dr Vertan came to check her out, but by then they’d settled down so she told us all not to worry. We did anyway. Especially Bane, who spent most of the afternoon pacing around the farm. He kept looking at me funny and couldn’t explain why. I told him he was probably just having Braxton-Hicks contractions too. He didn’t laugh.
Later that day, when Aunt Lily found Inara curled up on the pile of clothes Dallmin had just ironed for her, she totally lost the plot. There were a lot of people crammed into the house and she had offered Bane and I her cottage, so she was squishing in with everyone else. It was clearly starting to wear thin.
Al
