She never knew such happiness existed.
It was something she has stressed to Andrew, too. Given the hell they’d both been through, it was very important to make every moment count now that they’d finally found happiness.
As Josephine accompanied Elaine and her flowers from the hall, and Andrew and Donald continued their conversation over good wine and bread, it was moments like this that meant the most to Josephine – moments of normalcy and of family and friendship. It had been far too long in coming but now that it was here, Josephine intended to relish every single second that passed.
Before she left the hall, however, Josephine passed a final glance at her husband, sitting at the feasting table and laughing at something Donald had said. It made her heart swell simply to look upon the man. She told him once that he was her sun and her moon, and that statement had only grown more true and powerful as time went on. She adored him more than words could express, this man who had reinvented himself not once, but twice – once as a powerful mercenary, and now as a benevolent lord. She knew that there wasn’t anything he couldn’t do if he set his mind to it.
Except one thing.
He couldn’t change the sex of the baby Josephine gave birth to two months later into a boy. After a very fast and easy delivery on a rainy night in July, Josephine found herself looking at a big, healthy girl delivered by Oletha, the healer that traveled with Andrew’s former mercenary army. Andrew had requested the woman be present for the birth of his son, and she was.
But no amount of checking the baby’s body would indicate that the initial diagnosis that it was a girl was, in fact, a mistake, and Josephine was genuinely concerned that Andrew might be upset about it. But once the new father was brought in to see his wife and child, and handed the mewling infant, the fact that it wasn’t a boy didn’t seem to upset Andrew in the least. He was utterly, deeply in love with the infant as only a new father could be, but he had insisted on naming the child just the same. He’d had the same name picked out whether it had been a boy or a girl, and Josephine had tears in her eyes when he told her his choice.
Joey Elaine Nicola d’Vant.
For The Red Fury, for Josephine, and for those so deeply intertwined in their lives, it seemed that life had come full circle, indeed.
* THE END *
House of d’Vant:
Tender is the Knight (House of d’Vant)
The Red Fury (House of d’Vant)
About Kathryn Le Veque
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