Selena gently placed her hands on each of their foreheads. XXX “Now, time is short. Mike, you may well lose your arm in this process, but I bet you knew that coming into all of this.”
“Comes with the territory,” Mike replied with his smartass grin. “Very perceptive. This continued for six months, Maya successfully concealing herself, never allowing Ari to suspect that she had become pregnant. Once again, Mike and Melody were alone. “Even as Mike was a man of ‘outstanding moral fiber,’ that was merely one part of your mother’s wish. She tried to avoid going out alone as much as possible, as dangerous as it was for a woman to do so in the world in which they lived.
