Adrian
"Your pregnancy pictures. I want to see what I missed." I didn't think she understood what those words meant— or how much it took to say them.
I couldn't explain this sudden, burning need in me to want to see her carrying my child. This perfect gift I hadn't been able to stop staring at.
Meeting Asher the first time, finding out he was my son, was everything. But seeing him here, this little precious bundle wrapped up like the most perfect gift, made me ache for the moments I had lost— the first breath, first cry, the quiet tender seconds when she had held him close and whispered promises I hadn't been there to make.
God, the first time she found out she was pregnant. Did she ever have anyone to hold her hand when she was overwhelmed? Did anyone rub her back?
"But why? I looked
