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nauseous in the morning?”
    Nodding, Mary placed her hand over her stomach. “Yes, all
through the morning and sometimes in the afternoon.”
    “Well, these pills aren’t going to help,” she said with a
smile. “If you can keep them down, great.   But, don’t torture yourself. If all you can
do for now is eat a balanced diet and perhaps take some of those gummy
vitamins, that’s fine. At least those will stay in your body. But once the
morning sickness ends, you need to take a prenatal vitamin every day.”
    “Okay, I can do that,” Mary agreed. “Anything
else?”
    “Watch your carb intake,” she said. “I don’t mean you have
to give up sugar, but gestational diabetes is not something we want to have to
deal with. Once again, moderation is the key.”
    She picked up her tablet and jotted down a few notes. Then
she looked up at them. “I want to see you back here in four weeks,” she said.
“In the meantime, just continue in your regular activities.” She glanced at
Bradley. “Including all normal marital relations.”
    Bradley nodded, but his cheeks were tinged with red.
    “Call if you are concerned about anything,” she said to Mary
and then she left the room.
    “That was slightly awkward,” Bradley said once she was gone.
    Laughing, Mary slid down from the table. “I don’t know if
I’ve seen you blush before.”
    “I didn’t blush,” he replied, standing up and putting his
arms around her. “And I’m glad we can continue all our normal activities.”
    Wrapping her arms around his neck, she reached up and kissed
him. “Me too,” she murmured.
    “So, shall we head home?” he asked, his arms loosely looped
around her waist.
    She paused for just a moment. “Well, I did want to stop by
and see Jodi,” she said.
    “Because of the case or because of the ice cream?” he asked.
    Mary bit her lower lip and bent her head. “A little of
both,” she admitted, and then she looked up at him. “Butter pecan sounds really
good right now.”
    Laughing, he gave her a quick kiss. “I’ll go pick Clarissa
up at the Brennans and then start dinner,” he said. “Take your time at Jodi’s,
but remember dinner will be ready when you get home, so…”
    She nodded. “I know. Be sensible.”
    “Um, no, I was going to say ‘bring some home,’” he said with
a chuckle.

Chapter Eleven
    The sky was beginning to darken when Mary parked her car in
front of the ice cream parlor.   The green
neon lights that outlined the name of the store glowed in the early evening
dusk.   Even though it was early in the
season, there were quite a few customers enjoying the fountain creations as
Mary pushed open the glass door.
    Glancing around, she saw Jodi behind the ice cream counter,
scooping out a double scoop waffle cone.   She headed over to the ice cream display to meet with Jodi and, if she
was being honest with herself, to check out the newest flavors in the bins
behind the glass window.  
    As soon as she walked over there, Jodi looked up from her
scooping and nodded. “Hi Mary, thanks so much for coming by,” she said. “I’ll be
with you in just a moment.”
    “Take your time,” Mary insisted. “I’ll just decide on what I
want to bring home while you wait on your other customers.”
    She stepped closer to the display case to take a closer look
at the choices and gasped in surprise when she got jostled in the side.   She looked down to see a little boy standing
next to her. “Sorry,” he whispered. “I didn’t mean to bump you.”
    His little freckled face was pressed up against the glass
and his hands were plastered on either side of his face, so he could get an
even better view. Mary was startled when the customer beside her walked through
the little boy to hand a cluster of bills to Jodi to pay for her ice
cream.   The boy grinned up at Mary and
shook his head. “That didn’t hurt a bit,” he said with a wide smile.
    She looked around, there were far too many people close by
for her