He sighed in my hair. “I don’t either, Leda. I’m so fucking terrified of losing you.”
I just pressed against him tighter, letting my hands fall to his as we touched our growing child. “This is what matters the most,” I whispered, the tears falling onto my cheeks. “We have to come back for this.”
“I will do my best,” Lucas promised, burying his face into my shoulder.
I willed my eyes to close, knowing that I wouldn’t sleep a wink tonight. I needed this in my life. I needed to come back to Lucas, to have this child and for us to have a future together. We both needed it. “I love you,” I whispered.
Lucas turned me over until I was facing him, seeing the tenderness in his gaze.
“I love you,” he answered, pressing his lips to my forehead. “I will love you to the end of time and then another million years after that. You have everything that I am, Leda. You are everything I want to be.” His voice cracked, and he cleared it. “And everything I should be.”
I pulled him close to me, letting his head fall onto my chest as the tears coursed down my cheeks. We had to get through this alive.