(Ridge)
Mira had fallen asleep against me about twenty minutes after we stopped talking.
I didn't move. Just sat there with my arm around her and her head on my shoulder and the room quiet around us. She needed the rest more than I needed to be anywhere else right now and that was reason enough to stay where I was.
My phone vibrated on the nightstand.
I reached for it carefully without disturbing her.
Dane.
I answered it low.
"Yeah."
"Mira's parents are at the gate," he said.
Everything in me went still.
I looked at Mira asleep against my shoulder. Her hand resting on her stomach. Her face relaxed in a way it only got when she was fully under.
She didn't know.
She wasn't going to know.
"Hold them," I said quietly. "I'm coming."
I ended the call and carefully shifted Mira off
