Gently, he pressed his palm against her stomach and pulled her back against him entirely, his head coming to rest at her shoulder. He glanced down at the swell of her stomach, then back up at her from the corners of his eyes, the smile still firmly in place.

"Tell me how big she is now?" he asked. The doctor at the last clinic they'd visited had mentioned that, of course, but he'd only been half-listening after he'd mentioned that mother and child were in fine health, his thoughts drifting to other things. What he'd like to name the child when they got to that point, what they would do about a nursery, things like that.