Chapter 310

I wasn’t entirely sure where the men picked up the phrase, though.

“You thought of it today as you swam,” Damien informed me. “We kept hearing the Earth words, but we did not wish to interrupt your exercise.”

I laughed and stroked my stomach. It was a fitting analogy, I thought for a moment. I was big, fat, and swollen: a literal whale. Thank goodness for no mirrors. I’d hate to see how hideous I looked right now.

The men’s violent disagreement quickly dissuaded me of that idea.

“She is part of us,” Christof said stroking a hand down my side and looking at his brothers. “You are part of us also,” he directed to me. “You are not ugly to us. This is more family, we are lucky men.”

The little girl inside me pressed against the place Christof had been touching. Noticing it, he stroked her with loving fingers for several moments. His thoughts continued on the same lines as he touched me. Inside of me was something amazing.

Damien and the rest murmured