“ It's MY turn with the baby! "
𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐞'𝐬 body tensed for a brief moment at the thought of handing edmund over. it had nothing to do with violet, of course. if there were anyone outside of her own family she'd trust with her son, it'd be her mother in law. and even if they weren't related, violet was someone kate always held deep respect for. she raised eight children in a home of love and laughter. not everyone in the ton could say that. but they'd just spent months away in india, and kate's motherly instinct to p r o t e c t was still at its highest.
anthony could surely sense it, gently placing his hand on her back and snapping her out of her own thoughts. ❛ oh! oh, yes–– yes, of course! ❜ with a peck onto edmund's temple, she gently passed her son over to his grandmother. ❛ we are truly so grateful to be back. we were so eager for him to be in his home. ❜
