She slipped an arm around me and helped me back toward the nursery.

“I’m getting you checked if that pain gets worse,” she said.

“Right now tell me: are you safe?”

“I am while you’re here.”

“That isn’t a permanent answer.”

She was right.

Downstairs, Gavin tried to intercept her.

I heard him say that his marriage was a private matter, then Judith insist that he and I could resolve it without outsiders.