it was solely once they had wed that snippets of their future alongside one another came into perspective. a vision of family, a fantasy of sheer rapture. prior to their nuptials, she had not yet known of what to anticipate, had not yet been made abreast on the duties of viscountess by violet bridgerton at the time. in truth, the elder sharma had merely become certain of a single thing, perhaps two, upon marrying anthony bridgerton : number one, that she would love him to the end of her days, and number two : that he loved her. at first, the latter fact surely wasn’t trusted without question, believed with ease, albeit it was certainly one she’d been forced to accept. they had lived wholly different lives until they’d found one another, but they were both made of obstinacy and thick skin ( evidently, that couldn’t be said when in the other’s presence, for kate had never been vexed as fiercely by any other than the viscount ). self-will and equal fire their hamartia.
back is leant against a heap of fluffed pillows, propping not just her up, but their child to be, as well. the evening could have been an agreeable one, a soothing evening for her to simply lay and read to her ever growing belly. and yet, mother earth roared and dispatched rain by the bucketful against their windows, lightning crackling through the skies. ❛ i am well. ❜
❛ it is merely a hair louder this evening. ❜ soft smile takes over her features then, fright and disquietude almost a thing of the past at the moment, her fears all the more distant, detached from her, with each passing storm. in many ways, healing has come gracelessly, but here she sits, facing her torment with an occasional absence of the deep, unsettling fear that would typically emanate from her solar plexus until it could very well be felt blanketing her very skin. with each passing storm, @abhorlove had been there, to soothe her, to silence her fears with tortuous patience. ❛ i — we, ❜ a hand intuitively ascends to rest on her protruded belly, her gaze uncharacteristically nonresistant as she regards her husband, tension in her shoulders easing. ❛ are well. with you by our side, i am at ease, anthony. ❜ mostly, and that is certainly something. liked for a starter.
