by Mary Alford
I could barely speak. My voice shook when I told him.
“I wasn’t feeling quite right, so I asked her to do the six-month exam a little early.”
I faced him and could read all the fear he didn’t want me to see in his eyes. “Is everything alright?”
I took a deep breath and told him our good news. “Everything’s fine, Aaron. The checkup was all clear but…”
It took me another moment before I could say the words. All of the sudden I wasn’t sure how Aaron would react.
“But what? What is it?”
And then I started to cry but I was smiling. “I’m pregnant, Aaron. I’m pregnant. We’re going to have a baby. Can you believe it?”
I stared at him with so much uncertainty then. I didn’t know how he felt about having a family. We’d been concentrating so much on each other and just living for the moment that neither of us had thought about asking the other any of those important things.
“We’re having a baby?” For the first time ever I saw my husband cry, and I knew everything was going to be all right. It didn’t matter how many checkups I had ahead of me, I had both the strength and hope in those beautiful blue eyes.
“Oh Grace. I can’t imagine being happier. Can you?”
“No…I think this is the perfect act of faith for us, don’t you? Starting a family.”
“We should call the grandparents,” he suggested and then grinned at me. We both knew even before the phone rang.
There would be no need to call. Grandma Ruth knew already. She’d probably seen it all in one of her dreams.
About the Author
Mary grew up in a small Texas town famous for, well not much of anything really. Being the baby of the family and quite a bit younger than her two brothers and her sister, Mary had plenty of time to entertain herself. Making up stories seemed to come natural to her.
As a teen, Mary discovered Phyllis Whitney and Victoria Holt and knew instinctively that was what she wanted to do with her over-active imagination.
She wrote her first novel as a teen, (it’s tucked away somewhere never to see the light of day), but never really pursued her writing career seriously until a few years later, when she wrote her first inspirational romantic suspense and was hooked.
Today, Mary still lives in Texas, and still creates people facing dangerous situations. In fact, she can’t think of anything else she’d rather do.
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