#CHAPTER 77: Flutters

MAEVE POV I didn’t get it. I spent the last hour—maybe more—reading chapter after chapter in this pregnancy book, while Xaden busied himself with a pile of paperwork and a few phone calls to several dignitaries, but nothing I read bore any similarities to what I was experiencing. Fetal weight gain was not unheard of. Sizing nearly twice as much as he should have within the first month, however, was apparently an alien concept. Such weight gain didn’t normally happen until much later in the pregnancy. If I were to base my findings off this book, my pregnancy appeared to be an anomaly. What did that mean for my baby…? “Is something wrong?” The sudden sound of his voice addressing me for the first time in what felt like hours caught me by surprise. “What?” I asked, lowering my book to my lap. “You’ve been frowning at that book for the last ten minutes,” he commented, gazing at me thoughtfully. “What could be written on those pages to cause such a face?” I bit the inside of my c