The baby

**SOME MONTHS LATER**

The last few months had been peaceful and also joyous for Valerie, with Alexei and the rest of the Perez family sticking around for her. She had no idea how she’d achieved all she had but she knew the moon goddess and the love of her life had helped her greatly.

“Here.” Alexei said as he handed her a glass of warm milk and Valerie retched, she’d hated the milk and she had no idea why, it was probably her pregnancy hormones.

“C’mon,” she sighed, “you know I hate milks.” She added and Alexei rolled his eyes so hard that he could feel it at the back of his head.

“You’re heavy now and the healer recommended this, now don’t make it hard for me, take your milk like the good girl you are.” He smiled as he took her hand and placed the glass of milk in it.

Valerie smiled and when Alexei raised an eyebrow, she brought the cup to her mouth and downed the content, cleaning her mouth as she belched and gave the cup back to Alexei.

He’d always been there for her, when she’d fa