Chapter 33

Emily POV

October runs into November, and the leaves in Central Park turn golden brown. After much convincing, I finally gave notice on my apartment and moved all my things into Jacob’s place.

Packing everything up was a bitter-sweet moment, especially when it came to clearing out Liam’s room. Liam accompanied me on his insistence that I needed protection, but I just think he wanted to keep me close to him in case I did another disappearing act.

While packing up the last of the stuff in my room, he comes walking in with his ultrasound in his hand.

“What’s this?” he asks. “Is it a photo?”

“It’s a kind of a photo,” I say. “It’s a picture of you when you were still in my belly.”

“It is?” he asks, in awe of the piece of paper he’s clutching.

“It sure is. You were smaller than a pea when this was taken. It was my very first time meeting you. When I saw you, I waved at the screen, and the doctor thought I was being silly. But I knew you could feel me, just like I felt you growing insi