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Cassie's whole face lighted up, and for just a moment she felt the pull of it so strongly, the urge to get up, to get in the car, to go and hold that baby and sit with Lila and be present for it the way she always tried to be for the people she loved.But she felt the weight of herself when she moved, felt it in her back and her hips and the deep, settled heaviness of a body that was carrying two lives and had been doing so for a very long time now.The twins could come any day. Before the due date, or after it. There was no reliable way to know, and Franklin had been clear, in that gentle but completely immovable way of his, that he wanted her close to the hospital.Close enough that there was no scrambling, no last-minute panic, no unnecessary distance between her and the place she needed to be when the time came.She wouldn't have made it anyway. And even if some stubborn part of her had decided to try, Franklin would have stood in the doorway with his arms folded and that look on

Franklin typed back immediately. ‘Don't. Seriously. You need to be resting. Both of you.’He sent the same message, in slightly different words, to Scarlet. After everything he had just watched his wife go through, every moment of it still vivid and sitting close to the surface, his respect for pregnant women had expanded in ways he didn't entirely have language for yet.It wasn't that he hadn't respected them before. It was that he understood now, in his body rather than just his head, like watching and reading and being told simply could not have given him.✧༺♥༻✧Hours later, when Cassie woke up and had eaten enough to put some color back in her face and some steadiness back in her hands, the squad arrived.They came in with the particular energy of people who have been somewhere else, somewhere good, and redirected themselves the moment the news landed."We were at Lila's when your message came through," Thelma said, still slightly breathless from moving quickly, her face bright wi