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Without really thinking about what she was doing, Towhee began to plod toward him. She pictured Fennec's lips in her head, forming the words, "We should go get him." As they closed ranks, she took in his body language. She noted the signs of a healing injury. She felt the fury flow through her like an electric current, but now all of it was directed at Niamh.

Her mouth opened to say something, she wasn't even sure what, when he spoke first. "You look good." Sometime during her wrathful musings, she had planned for this possibility. She had fully intended to lie to Reyes, tell him she had lost all their children, convince him there was nothing remaining between them at all.

But now there was no denying she was still very much pregnant. And she didn't want to cut him out of her life. It was clearer than ever that Niamh had somehow engineered this entire situation. And now Towhee could see the opportunity to reclaim her life, dangling right in front of her. All she had to do was reach out and grab it.

"Come home," she said.