(Aurora's POV)
I reached over and patted her arm. "You look happy, though."
She was quiet for a moment. Then, very quietly, she said, "Yeah. I kind of am."
I smiled and didn't say anything else. Some things didn't need commentary.
Gavin ran into Phineas at the open-air restaurant around the same time. I heard about it later from both of them, which meant I got two very different versions of the same conversation.
Phineas's version: he had simply been having his afternoon coffee and made a few passing observations about family life.
Gavin's version, delivered with the energy of a man who had been personally targeted: "He sat there with his espresso and said, completely unprompted, that once the baby arrives he and Aurora won't have as much time alone together, but that a complete fami
