The Light || Jake and Teddy

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“Wow,” Jake said softly and he dropped to his knees before her. He didn’t care that they were still in the middle of the airport and that people were definitely watching. He had missed his wife and now she’d just given him the best news he’d heard in ages. This was so much more important. 

His hands were glued to her midsection, his ear was pressed to her small baby bump for a moment. When Jake pulled away, he pressed his lips to her stomach lovingly before gently just running his hands over it. “More than four months along, right?” He could tell quietly.

Teddy opened her mouth, but no words came out. Instead, she just swallowed and nodded. Four months without telling him, and Jake nearly hadn’t had the chance to find out — there was nothing that scared Teddy more. What if he hadn’t come home to her?

“I was terrified,” Teddy breathed, shame coloring her voice dark and brooding. “I never stopped praying, but I was so scared that I might have to raise our baby alone. That our baby might have to grow up without a father.”