That night, I pretended to be asleep as he climbed into bed, little after one in the morning. I waited patiently until he fell asleep, before wiggling out of bed, picking up my ultrasound scan and quietly, and tiptoeing upstairs to the upper bedrooms.
I went into the first room that was embellished in red decor, and opened the balcony doors to find a beautiful view of the night ocean in front of me.
The moon itself was low on the water, but the sky was alight with millions of stars. In the distance, I could hear the beautiful tune of the crickets in the distance as the waves washed up on the shore.
For a while, I sat on the wicker seating area and simply looked at my scan in wonder, my hands on my growing bump, lost in thought until the sky began to lighten.
Slowly my eyes drifted clos
