" He slid his hand onto Riley's bare abdomen. " I got to thinkin' that a few years down the line, when yer older, what if that was our baby and I could feel it right here under my hand. Feel the life we'd created." Riley's eyes moistened. " Girl or boy?" " Doesn't matter. If it's a girl, we can name her after my gran. Her name was Emily Rose." " Hmm...I like that. Maybe the boy could be Paul Arthur, like my dad." " Yeah, that works. But that's all the way down the line, isn't it?" It might never come to pass. "