"How often is this going to happen?"
Phei had asked the question sometime during the third hour of being almost completely forgotten in favor of Melissa and his unborn child.
He was seated deep into one of the enormous couches inside the cinema room with the Goddess tucked comfortably against him, one arm around her waist while his little sister rested nearby in her reduced Dragon form. Across the room, Melissa remained surrounded as though pregnancy had somehow transformed her into the most fascinating existence on Paradise Island overnight.
The scene had barely changed since Phei and Melissa accidentally announced the pregnancy to everyone.
At first there had been shock, then questions, disbelief that was followed almost immediately by a migration toward Melissa that left Phei standing there with his newly adopted Dragon sister wondering how he had managed to return from nearly a year of hell only to lose everyone's attention to a tiny person who had not even been born yet.
