Unexpected Rise of Leonard Storm

Chapter 186

He’d never seen a face so lovely.

Not as Matilda dismounted and took the chubby baby—the portrait of newborn health—from the mother’s outstretched arms. “Oh, she’s beautiful,” she cooed, brushing a finger over a round cheek.

The mother beamed. “Fat as a dirt-grub.” She spoke in Leonard ’s own tongue,

either because Matilda used it with her, or from noticing his own features, so different from the various norms here in Antica. “Hungry as a pig, too.”

Matilda bobbed and swayed with the baby, cooing at the girl. “The feeding is going well?”

“She’d be on my breast day and night if I let her,” the mother groused, not at all embarrassed to be discussing such things with him present.

Matilda chuckled, her smile growing as she let a tiny hand wrap around her finger. “She looks healthy as can be,” she observed. Then looked over the mother. “And you?”

“I’ve been following the regimen you gave me—the baths helped.” “No bleeding?”

A shake of the head. Then she seemed to notice him, because sh