Alexander:
She came to find me just before sunset.
I was halfway through a report I hadn’t actually read when I felt her presence at the doorway. I looked up automatically. I always did now.
I got up from my chair and walked toward her, my eyes softening as I approached her. “Is everything alright? You rarely ever come to the office, and I am sure that you are not going to sleep just yet.”
Alessia stood there, one hand resting on her belly, the other tucked nervously at her side. There was something careful in her expression, like she was bracing for resistance.
“Sienna said she’d take me to look at things for the baby,” she began. “I wanted to tell you before you heard from her. I wanted to be the one to talk to you about it.”
“Of course, not.”
“I beg your pardon?” She asked, rais
