Belle's health and recovery improved with each passing day until she began to feel like her old self_before she got pregnant and carried the heavy weight of her son in her womb. She felt lighter now, and the roundness in her stomach, which she had believed would never go away, had flattened, returning her natural figure and gifting her with even more mature, sharpened curves, curves that a certain someone admired at every opportunity.
But with her recovery came other subtle, unsettling problems that troubled her deeply. Apart from the fact that ever since Rohan had told her they would be leaving the cottage and returning to Nightbrook, to their reality, she had been consumed with worry every second of the day, even though she tried not to show it, there were also strange things happening to her, and to the cottage, that she couldn't ignore.
