She fell asleep at night with Femi’s warmth pressed against her from behind, moist breath curling over and around Zoe’s skin, raising gooseflesh where it caressed. She fell asleep feeling the gentle hitch-jerk-hitch of his hiccups against her fingers.

*****

Zoe closed the book she was reading – she was certain there’s nothing in the world scarier than What To Expect When You’re Expecting, and she was including adopting Zack in with that – and looked down at herself.

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“Yeah.” Femi didn’t move, though, just hovered there, breathing. When he did shift, Zoe expected him to get up. What she didn’t expect was a kiss so gentle, so loving, it stole Zoe’s breath away. Femi drew back, a lazy smile curving his mouth, and stood up, holding a hand out to Zoe. “I was gonna see if you wanted to watch a movie, but how ’bout we go, um… take a nap.”

“A nap,” Zoe repeated, watching the smile light up Femi’s eyes. “Yeah, I… I think I’m kind of tired.”

Funny how she didn’t think there was going to be much resting taking place.