Chapter 174: Jack

His stomach churned but he nodded, walking into the room. Fear filled him, but as he entered the room he started to relax.

“You’re so beautiful… you take after your father.”

Laurel lay among the sheets, dressed in a loose gown and cradling the baby to her chest.

At the distance, he could only see a tuft of honey blonde hair in the swaddling blanket. The wetnurses bowed and stepped aside as he approached.

Laurel smiled up at him, “Want to meet him?”

“Him?”

Laurel beamed at him, “Him… Nimue told me before, but I wanted it to still be a surprise for you.”

Another boy. Adolph sunk onto the bed beside her, kissing her cheek before looking down into her arms.

He had Laurel’s nose and hair pattern though the coloring was all his. Maybe when he grew up he’d take after his grandfathers, but he wouldn’t be able to tell that for a while.

“Can I hold him?”

Laurel nodded, offering the child to him. He smelled like fresh water and clean skin as Adolph took him, and held him close. He was so smal