Wrongfully Claimed

Chapter Thirty - Nine

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                            Aurora

Aurora's eyes fluttered open and found Ryder curled up beside her, with his head, nuzzling into her chest, laying in the exact same position as he'd been in before they fell asleep.

She'd barely slept throughout the night and spent most of the evening having to make frequent trips to the bathroom, sometimes two, to three times in the space of an hour.

Now that she was approaching her third trimester, the baby had been putting a huge amount of pressure on her bladder and it was becoming increasingly worse as the days passed.

The Braxton hicks kept coming intermittently, some more intense and more protracted than others, but she would find herself panicking, thinking it was the early onset of labour commencing.

The doctor who would come check on her almost every week, assured her she had nothing to worry about and that it was perfectly normal to be experiencing frequent contractions the closer she neared the end of her pregnancy.

The stress of Ryder being around her 24-7 wasn't making things any easier for her. After last night, she had no idea how she was going to face him and now that it was a new day, she wondered what today would bring and what he had in store for her next.

"Good morning, beautiful, " he drawled out, peppering kisses along her neck." How did you sleep?"

"Like hell," she admitted in a tight voice. " I barely slept at all. The baby was putting pressure on my bladder all night and I had to keep getting up to pee."

Her displeasing tone, sparked Ryder to rise from the bed and go make her something to eat.

" Be back just now. I am gonna go whip you somethin' to eat, and afterwards, I want you to take your prenatal vitamins. You didn't take them last night like I told you to do. "

Ryder hopped out of bed, after giving her a lecture for the next few minutes about how she needed to prioritise the importance of taking care of herself and this baby.

He had nothing on as usual and she caught a glimpse of his perfectly toned ass being the first thing that caught her eye as he made his way to the door.

Aurora started to get used to seeing Ryder naked as he regularly would go about his mornings wearing no clothes or only his boxer briefs.

This morning had been no different than yesterday or the day before, but still, she found it uncomfortable having to see him in the nude on a daily basis and wished he would at least put something on instead of parading around naked all morning.

He was in impeccable shape, no doubt about it, and it didn't help that he was hung like a horse, which only added to the mortification of having to face him without feeling the least bit embarrassed about seeing him with nothing on.

After a few minutes of having a few minutes of much-needed respite from him, he entered the room with her breakfast.

He plodded over to her, looking much like she felt, his soft brown eyes visibly showing signs of sleep deprivation and he appeared clumsier than usual.

Dark periorbital circles covered his eyes as he fumbled across the room, to give her the breakfast he made for her, almost dropping it twice in the process.

Like always, there was a surfeit helping of food, all spread out on the table in abundance for her, consisting of oatmeal, fruit, orange juice, blueberry pancakes and beside it, her prenatal vitamins.

"Please eat, and then I will run you a bath. After you've changed, I want you to get some rest for a few hours. Tonight we are goin' out."

She smothered a groan, almost forgetting they were going out this evening.