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Bethany looked around to find Chandler standing in the doorway, his boots in his hand. Her heart racing, she gasped. “You frightened me.”

“Sorry.” He walked across the floor in his stocking feet. “You didn’t answer my question. Why aren’t you asleep?”

She shrugged. “Just feeling kind of weird, I guess.”

Frowning, he lifted a hand to her forehead. “Maybe you’re coming down with something.”

“I’m fine.” She reached up to remove his hand from her brow. The baby suddenly moved. Bethany instinctively placed Chandler’s hand on her abdomen. “I’m not the only one who can’t sleep.”

He stared at her belly as it rippled, little hillocks appearing here and there, only to smooth out again as the baby moved. Finally the baby subsided into stillness, and Chandler looked up at her with awe in his cinnamon eyes.

“Amazing,” Chandler whispered.

Their gazes held for several moments before he abruptly snatched his hand away.

If only, she thought, if only this was a true marriage.