Chapter 237: Were You Happy?

Michelle's POV:

Surrey, Present Day

"Were you happy when you found out?" Aurora asks me.

"Happy? I was terrified," I admitted, "but yes, I couldn't have been happier."

I wait to see if she has any more questions before continuing. "I wasn't ready to be a mother. I was only twenty and I had never had to do anything on my own. My parents had provided everything that I had. I needed to grow up."

My daughters are quiet as I tell them everything that I'd felt. I tell them how I had felt incompetent and completely unprepared. I tell them that I had been unbelievably excited.

"Did you get married because you were pregnant?"

"No," I giggle. "We didn't get married for some time."

***

Paris, 1983

He thought I was calmer than he was. Apparently, he'd completely missed the way my hands were shaking or the way my voice seemed to scratch in my throat.