Chapter 20

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Ethan's POV

I stood beside the bed and waited until Emily was fast asleep, her light snores reverberating through the room. She looked so peaceful when she slept, the woman. Soft and care-free, as though she had not a burden in the world. She murmured something as she slept, then rolled over to the other side.

It was funny how much had changed since she came into my life, how she seemed to have turned the trajectory of my life, my purpose, my ambition. She'd given me the one thing, the only thing I wished for above all else: a child. If only she knew just how much she meant to me.

I sighed and turned away from the bed, my smile morphing into a scowl as I moved to the door. Now, I had to face the hardest part of my day.

I reached the door and wrapped my fingers around the doorknob, taking a moment to sigh. I glanced back at Emily, who was still snoring peacefully on the bed, her face made pale by the slanting moonlight from the window above her.

She shouldn't see thi