Darien hurried to the house as his daughter's car pulled into the driveway. Elise had not wanted him to accompany her to the doctor, but he'd worried the entire time he'd been home, digging fence post holes to keep himself busy.
Entering the house, he looked at his wife sitting in the kitchen chair, a dazed expression on her face.
"Tell me now," he said, the worry that had ridden him since the day he'd learned of her heart problems rising to the forefront.
"You won't believe it --" Isabeau's voice was a high pitch. Something his daughter did, he'd learned, when she was excited.
"We're going to have a baby," Elise blurted, staring at him, worry on her face. "Twins."
"Twins?" he waved his hand as his daughter and wife started to repeat what he'd just heard. "I heard, I am just --" He came to Elise, knelt beside her. "What will this do to your heart? Elise, I have been so careless --"
"It's okay," she soothed. "Really, it is. I had a full battery of tests. The doctors are stunned, but there is no sign I had a hole in my heart repaired two years ago."
"I'm going to share the news with Pierce," Isabeau said, giving her father and then her mother a kiss. She ran out the back door, intent on giving her husband their own news.
"Do that, darling," Elise watched her daughter leave, then lifted her smile to Darien. "Don't look worried, everything is really all right. My heart is as good as anyone's."
Darien pulled her up into his arms.
"Darien?" She pulled back so she could see his face. "I never expected this -- really. I'm going to be forty years old. I'm kind of blown away by it."
"Now you sound like our daughter."
She laughed, tenderly touching his cheek. "How do you feel about it?"
"How do I explain?" He sat down, bringing her with him so she sat on his lap. "Never had I thought I would be so fortunate to love you again. A beautiful wife and daughter, a new business with our horses and now another child. Two. It is more than I ever expected or asked for."
"Oh, Darien, you said it so beautifully. We've been given a second chance."
Isabeau opened the kitchen door and put her head inside. "This is really strange, but there's riders coming across the back field." Her eyes met her father's. "Um -- one of them looks like you."
THE END
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About TREASURE SO RARE
Treasure So Rare is book 3 in the Women of Strength time travel series. Captain Erik Remington has been haunted for three years by a black haired sea witch. They spent seven glorious days and nights before she vanished as mysteriously as she appeared.
In 1847, when his ship is pulled into a strange vortex, he and his crew are sucked into middle ages England. Forced to assume another's identity by the sorcerer Mandrak, he travels to the home of the Lady Iliana.
This world is nothing like the England of history books. Danger lurks everywhere; history is twisted and in the skies are dragons. When Erik meets the Lady Iliana he instantly recognizes her as the woman he's searched for, however she wants nothing to do with a man who threatens not only her mission but the very people she is trying to save.
Iliana's unwavering quest is to find the perfect green emerald and restore its power so the land and people will once more flourish. The sorcerer Mandrak wants the gem for himself, and his manipulations risk the safety of everyone she holds dear, including her infant son.
But all does not fall into place, for Erik is nothing as she expected. He appears to be a man who cares about her causes and begins to endear himself to her heart. He swears he is not out to harm her, but as sorcery invades the keep, threatening the lives of everyone under her care, Iliana knows time is running out. If the green gem is not found, evil will overtake all.