chapter 31

Valen Ten weeks later Everly has been put on bed rest. She’s made it to thirty weeks and Doc already said there’s a high chance she won’t carry the pregnancy to term. He also told us at her last appointment that she’ll need to have a c-section. But with everything going on, we haven’t even started setting up the nursery. Valarian and I stop by the hotel on the way to the baby store to pick up Macey and Zoe, who are coming to help pick out the baby stuff. Everly wanted to come, but she can barely walk a few yards without having to pee, and her feet are swollen. However, she doesn’t trust my ‘vanilla taste’, as she calls it, so the girls are coming to advise. She insisted Valarian go to spend some time with me after we learned he’s received detention twice for hitting two boys at school and has been playing up. We spoke to him about it and all he said was the boy deserved it. He refuses to tell us what it was about, despite us trying to talk to him about it. Though I’m glad the girls are