It decided it couldn’t be bothered with two more weeks.’ ‘Where is everyone?’ ‘Aaron is using the internet lounge and mum and dad are in t...e café.’ Micah couldn’t help but be impressed by Laura’s calm. It was one of the reasons he had even considered this surrogate pregnancy. Her calm persisted through the ups an downs of the IVF procedures, and as her belly grew and grew with his and Ellia’s children her infinite serenity never wavered. Nothing seemed to bother her, not Ellia’s frequent. His gaze had captivated her from across the spacious room full of mingling bodies and in that momentary glance, she could feel the distance between them decimated, the world revolving with such clarity that she could feel the clouds swirling with languid motion across skies that played all the hues of a rainbow within that split second. The hand that he offered before her had been warm and filled with unbridled masculinity. The moment her hand became engulfed with his, she was swarmed by a. " Poor baby, you're in a rut. Why don't you give Steve a little encouragement when we go to the opera Friday night. Just a tiny bit. Might wake you up. And might wake your husband up."I was gobsmacked. Learned that word in an English mystery I read, and it was definitely appropriate here. What you do in that situation is change the subject. So I asked her whether she thought this Baby Doe opera would be any good. It worked, and the subject didn't come up againBack at work I was so busy I almost. I'm in a fog. The fog. The Female Fog, my ex used to call it. When my mind would sort of curl up and go to sleep and the Woman Beast in me would take over. That guy's starting to look pretty good. I could --Her fingernails were digging painfully into his arm as she snarled at him, "Get me away from this friggin' place. Now. Take me home, damn you!"She was a natural blonde. Unless had she dyed her pubic hair too. But he had no attention to spare for inane speculation because he had to maintain.