(Phoenix’s POV)

I heard Sterling making a call in one of the rooms and I could hear him all the way from the nursery and when he came back him, taking slow strides towards me, I had to ask, “Babe, who was that?” turning my attention from the sleeping baby to him.

He raised one of his brows as though he was in a confused state, “It was Olivia, apparently she needs a weeks’ leave of absence from work for a family emergency,” inserting both hands into his pocket.

I too was surprised, in all the months since she was employed, she had never asked for a leave of absence,...