Parker looked at the photo on his screen again. It was definitely Talia. Barring any photo manipulation, she was definitely coming out of a baby shop. Parker grimaced. ‘Baby shop’ sounded wrong, but he didn’t know how else to phrase it in his head. He might also be focussing on the wrong thing because he was a little too freaked out about what he was seeing, namely Talia coming out of a store that sold baby items, carrying a bag with the store’s logo on the side, and laughing.

Parker did not for one minute think Talia was pregnant. Okay. There may have been the initial fleeting thought about the...