He turned the page to read the next chapter was about the changes in a woman’s body in the first few months of pregnancy.
When a woman was pregnant, she would experience many changes in her body, such as mammary swelling, drowsiness, leg cramps at night, and the color of the mammary areola would gradually become darker along the pregnant times.
He lowered his head and found that Loredana was breathing unsteadily and not like she was asleep. He put the book and leaned sideways to hold her, “What’s wrong?”
Loredana had calmed down a lot at this time, “Nothing, I just can’t fall asleep.”
Cormac’s Adam’s apple bobbed in his throat. He felt more uncomfortable than she was, but he thought of the doctor’s advice, so he restrained himself.
He slightly opened her nightgown neckline with his fingers.
Loredana hurriedly covered it with her hands, “What are you doing?”
Cormac smiled, “I just want to have a look.”
Loredana was speechless.
His voice was a little hoarse, but his laughter concealed the hoarseness voice, “The book states that there will be some changes in a pregnant woman’s body. I want to see if yours has any changes.”
Loredana’s thought that was swallowed and restrained was inexplicably triggered by him. Her entire body felt uncomfortable and her face was slightly burning. Cormac opened her collar and asked huskily, “Will it change?”
Loredana turned her head to look at him and reached out to caress his face. Her voice was soft, “It will become very ugly.”
When she was expecting Samuel and Simona, it changed especially fast in the latter months and turned dark grey.
“No matter what it becomes, I won’t mind.”
Cormac grabbed her hand that was stroking his face. He held her palm, pressed it against the pillow and kissed her lips. The residual sanity told her that they could not…If they continued, she would only be more uncomfortable.
She mumbled, “The doctor said we can’t…”
His kiss became even wilder as he said in a mumbled voice, “You don’t know how much I want to make you comfortable.”
The body’s need did not diminish but grew stronger. She turned her head sideways, “You stay away from me.”
With the two of them hugging each other like this, the fire simply could not be distinguished. If this continued, they might not be able to resist doing…
Cormac was also trying very hard to control himself. He pulled her hemline down, turned over his body and lay flat on the edge of the bed. Both of them did not say anything and just lay quietly like that.
The clock on the wall kept ticking and time kept passing.
After about ten minutes, Loredana first broke the silence.
“Have you ever resented me in your mind? If I hadn’t gotten close to Victoria, there wouldn’t have been so much trouble.” When Loredana heard Victoria saying about the past, she knew that Jeffery had deep feelings for Jolene. However, she did not expect that Jeffery could be crazy to this extent.
“No. I didn’t understand at first but I know you have your own thoughts.” Cormac’s voice returned to normal without the previous hoarseness.
Loredana turned her body sideways and buried her head in his arms, “You know what? I’ve fallen in love with you and I wish to…” take care of someone whom you can’t take care of.
Cormac held back the joy in his mind, “Are you confessing to me?”
Loredana said, “Sort of.”
He turned sideways and took her head out of his arms, looking at her face.
Loredana caressed her eyelashes, “It isn’t settled yet, is it?”
Cormac kissed her forehead and embraced her in his arms, “It’ll be done soon. You just have to rest and recuperate at ease, don’t worry about what’s going on outside. Don’t take anything you hear to heart too as those may be expedient approaches, you just need to trust me.”
Since he said this, something would happen for sure later but she did not know what exactly it was.
“I trust you.”
Cormac felt it was funny again and pretended to be relaxing to ease the atmosphere as he did not want such a topic to make her worry, “You trust me so much, don’t you worry that I’ll run away with another woman?”
Loredana pinched his waist, “If you dare to run away, I’ll cripple your legs.”
Loredana’s force was a bit hard and Cormac frowned in pain, “If they were crippled, would you take care of me.”
“Yes, I would take care of you. I can’t let my children lose their father.”
If that really happened, perhaps she would really do that. Even if he could only lie in bed, he was still her children’s father.
She must give them a complete home.
Cormac hugged her even more tightly, “I won’t run. I only want you in this life. When we’re alive, we’ll lie on the same bed and after our deaths, we’ll stay in the same coffin. I’m so much elder than you so I surely will die first. When the time comes, don’t forget to tell the children to put me and you together.”
Loredana raised her head to glare at him, “Don’t say all these ominous words. If you die first, I’ll go find a handsome old man…’
Cormac disdained, “You can’t find an old man who is more handsome than me.”
“Then the slightly uglier one is fine also.” Loredana settled for second best.
“I’ll drag whoever that dares to want you to hell as well,” Cormac said fiercely. Loredana was speechless.
11
It seemed that the topic of the conversation went too far and they got carried away. Both people did not bring up that matter again. In the evening, Coral knocked on the door with a food box. Cormac got up from the bed and opened the door. Coral walked in while smiling, “You guys should be hungry, right?”
Loredana indeed felt hungry. She leaned against the bedhead, “What are the dishes today.”
She seemed to eat different things every day so she was somewhat looking forward to the dishes every day. She stayed in the ward all day as if she was isolated from the world because other than sleeping, she could only eat.
Coral smilingly placed the food box on the table and confidently said, “They’re definitely to your liking.” Based on the doctor’s advice and according to the ingredients stated in the recipe, Loredana really did not throw up anymore. Besides, she had more and more appetite.
The vegetarian dishes this time consisted of shredded cabbage, egg yolk with pumpkin, sauteed spinach, yellow croaker soup and steamed tofu. They were all served on very delicate small plates. Coral turned her head to look at Cormac who was standing at the bedhead, “I heard someone say that if pregnant women look at beautiful things more, the babies they give birth to will also be good-looking so I specifically went to buy these small plates.” The chopsticks and spoons were matched and the patterns on them were all artificially depicted. The glaze was also welded on it with a special process. Cormac put his hands in his pockets and his shirt was all wrinkled. He glanced at Loredana and said, “It’s true that we should pay more attention to this part. Otherwise, if the baby inherits her look, it may be very ugly.”
Coral knew that Cormac was joking so she laughed.
Loredana glared at him. He was the ugly one.
Coral set up the dishes, “Wash your hands and eat.”
Cormac walked over and carried Loredana to the bathroom to wash her hands. Then, he placed her on a chair, sat opposite her and ladled soup for her, “Drink soup first.”
Before eating, he let her drink the soup first to stimulate her appetite.
Loredana used a spoon to scoop and taste it. The things she ate basically did not have condiments and the flavour was the original taste of the ingredients themselves. It was bland and the fish soup was thick, white and very fresh.
Coral had eaten before she came so she took the bed-sheets off the bed and replaced them with clean ones. The bed-sheets and quilt were changed every day. The weather was a bit hot and Loredana’s body could not get cold. So, the air conditioner was not on and sometimes she would slightly sweat. Coral worried that she would feel uncomfortable so she changed them every day.
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.