Elena POV
Three months had passed since Adrian was shot and I was eighteen weeks pregnant now with a bump I couldn't hide anymore no matter how loose my clothes were, and I walked into his hospital room feeling like I was carrying the weight of the world on my swollen belly.
"Hi," I said, sitting down heavily in the chair beside his bed. "Look at me, I'm huge already and we're not even halfway there yet."
Adrian looked exactly the same as he had yesterday and the day before and every day for the past twelve weeks, same tubes down his throat and same monitors beeping their steady rhythm, and I took his hand and placed it on my stomach.
"They're kicking now," I said. "Feel that? That's Baby A, strong kicks like you, and that's Baby B, gentler but still there."
I felt movement under my s
