She stared at her husband through eyes that felt as scratchy as a day-old mosquito bite. With a deep sigh she said, “What else am I to do? Tell everyone not to get sick, not to have any accidents, and above all, not to birth any more babies?” She’d just come home from being all night with one of the newer families south of town. While the baby had been slow to come, he’d entered the world with a healthy yell. Sometimes that was the way with first babies. “They could have brought her to you at Thorliff’s so you didn’t have to travel so far.” She smiled up at him and leaned against his side, the chair she was sitting on creaking resentment at her movement. “And who was it that drove me out there and slept the night on their floor so he could drive me home after the grand arrival?” “Well, at least I slept.” Haakan stroked her hair with a callused hand. “I thought those days and nights of doctoring were over for you.” “They would be if Elizabeth hadn’t gone and gotten pregnant again.
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