{Six months later}

"Arianna? What are you doing up?" Pierce grumbled as he walked into the nursery.

"I can't sleep. I'm a little restless," she complained as she folded up baby clothes in preparation for their child's arrival. It would be any day now, and it was just a waiting game. Arianna had slipped into full-blown nesting mode trying to make sure that everything was in order. "How are you feeling, Pierce?" Arianna asked.

"Nervous, to be honest. Your pregnancy is high-risk. I already loss one child, I don't want to lose another one," he whispered.

Arianna released a tiny sigh. A couple of weeks after Arianna returned to Texas,...