Chapter 6
Chapter Six
Adelaide
M y stomach was churning when I woke up the next morning. Oh, God, it was going to be one of those days. I had thought that the days of morning sickness and nausea were behind me.
With a gag, I threw myself out of bed, rushing over to the bathroom. I barely managed to drop to my knees in front of the toilet before I emptied my stomach.
River, who I hadn’t even noticed got out of bed with me, held my hair out of the way and comfortingly rubbed my back as I dry heaved a couple more times before I got sick again. Tears spilled down my cheeks. Fuck, throwing up hurt so much . And my face was fucking throbbing .
“You alright, darlin’?” he asked me once I was done emptying my stomach.
“It’s going to be one of those days,” I grumbled, my stomach still churning. I gagged again, but nothing came up that time. “I was hoping I’d left them behind in my first trimester, but I guess not.”
“Morning sickness?” he inquired, a slight frown pulling on his face as he tried to understand what I was going through. Despite how shitty I felt, it warmed my heart.
I nodded in answer. He leaned down and lifted me against his chest, cradling me in his arms as he carried me to my living room. He gently set me onto the couch and grabbed my throw blanket from the back of it, draping it over me.
“I’m going to make you some soup. Do you have any saltine crackers?” he asked. “I heard crackers are supposed to help the nausea.”
I shook my head at him. “I ate them all the last time I was sick,” I told him, closing my eyes as vomit rose in my throat. I really didn’t want to get sick again.
I slowly opened my eyes once the nausea settled, only to see him pulling his phone out of his pocket to type out a quick text to someone. After he was finished, he slid his phone back in his pocket and placed a kiss on my forehead before he walked off to my kitchen to make me some soup.
Closing my eyes, I curled into a ball, muffling a groan in the throw pillow beneath my head when my stomach churned again.