Chapter 372

Still, I didn’t argue, just got up and let him steady me as we started walking slow laps around the villa. I kept sneaking glances at him as we walked. His expression was so serious it was almost comical, as if he were pondering some grave philosophical problem. Then, as we passed the conservatory, he suddenly stopped. I stopped too, confused. ‘We need two names,’ he said, thoughtful. ‘For both girls and boys. And not Maple.’ I stared at him. So that’s what he’d been thinking about all this time. ‘Fine. Not Maple.’ The name had been something I’d made up on a whim ages ago, never meant to be permanent, but apparently he’d taken it to heart. ‘So,’ I asked, ‘have you come up with any good ones?’ ‘I’ll think about it properly when we get back,’ he said. I could only sigh. So all that brooding was for nothing, then. We finished our walk, headed back inside, and later I lay in bed listening to soft music, doing some prenatal bonding with the babies. After a while, I realised something was o