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Hello, Edmund

Autor: Jsommi
last update Fecha de publicación: 2026-06-20 16:45:19

Clara's POV

The second baby came on a Sunday morning in early summer.

Faster than Eleanor. Silas had read about this possibility, second labours being typically shorter, and he had prepared accordingly, which meant he was the calmest person in any room related to the birth from the moment it started.

I was less calm. Not from fear. From the specific intensity of a body doing something enormous at a pace that left less time for the particular controlled breathing approach I had developed with El
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