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After the weekend pregnancy bomb dropped on our heads, we’d raced back to London and back into work We hadn’t even told our parents yet, and had my sister and Fred on secret squirrel, under threat of death if they spilled the news before we did

We were trying to accliations foronly twenty-one days off There was hardly tiht noished for a smoke Or three

Once ere out of the doctor’s office, I put my arm around her and kissed her on the top of the head "That was fun, baby Dr Burnsley is a charree?"

"Yeah, he’s awesome," she said sarcastically with arms folded beneath her brsts

"A, come on, he wasn’t that bad," I cajoled, "he used the banana probe on you"

"Oh hed silently "Only you could make a joke about that hideous situation and make it funny!"

"But it worked, and that is the point of it," I told her as alked

"I’ht of the possibility I’d have to stop" She sounded down about it

"Maybe a leave of absence would be a good thing, though It would give you ti" I looked down at her stoht about it Best to not delve too deeply and re she loved for the nextyou home more and you’ll need to have plenty of rest Maybe this way you can start a project or so that you’ve wanted to work on but didn’t have tiht I could see the cogs in her pretty head turning with ideas Hard to say what, because if Brynne wasn’t in a sharing ure it out"

"Of course you will" I squeezed, bringing her a little closer, hating that I had to leave her and go back to my office I wanted hours in bed just wrapped up in each other It was really all I wanted

I stopped us on the sidewalk and turned her tocare of both of you" I put --erum, I meanblueberry, are my top priority now"

She s, and her lovely eyes that were very greenish-brown under the suot very wet She put her hand over both of irl’s beautiful face

I widenedher like this Needingto let me I really didn’t need a lot Just her love and the acceptance ofwith my care

She rolled her eyes in embarrassht now!"