Chapter 76

• The lights were low over the pool, creating a relaxed atmosphere. With the flowers Terah had selected floating in the water it completed the picture of a tranquil scene. Then the men standing around the pool, looking tense completely ruined the whole picture. Konner glanced to see Reeves would have rather been anywhere but here.
• The women were in the water, along the border, and not one of them looked tense, his aunt in fact looked happier than he’d seen her in years. They all wore some sort of robe that floated out around them, the white of them making them appear like clouds. Shaelan was beside the ladder, he assumed standing on it because she couldn’t float in as the others could. She had offered to wear a mask and go beneath the surface, but a strong contraction had ended that amusing conversation.
• Malachi was in the water, supporting his mate as she relaxed between contractions. Seeing that set something inside Konner off that he didn’t think he had in him—until right now in this moment. He did want this part of life to be his own. Family, children, all of it.