“There you go using all kinds of words like tender and lover that don’t suit the image, Mal.” I kissed her brow, careful not to touch her lips in the morning. I’d learned before food hit her stomach, anything near her mouth and nose had Malin hunched over, retching. I bent over her growing belly and pressed a kiss in the middle. Most knew of our news. Only those in the South were kept in the dark. Malin wanted to wait for the gathering to Gunnar’s vows to surprise the princeling and his star seer.
