His formerly dark eyes had darkened much more. His calm eyes had changed to ice, as if intractable, and were no longer the same as before. His gaze seemed to pierce as deep as my soul, and I could sense the tightness in his jaw as he glanced at my stomach. He doesn’t take his attention away from me, even though his hand is inextricably linked to mine.

I looked at Stanley as he hem and wrapped his hand around my waist. I smiled at him to show he had nothing to worry about. I was no longer the Caroline he had known. And I won’t let him compare himself...