"I understand it's to be expected," Evie waves away his apology with a smile. She doesn't know a lot about pregnancy but she's picked up enough information to have a rough understanding of how it went, and she was only going to do more reading when she was back on land.

She leaned up to kiss him, touched by how attentive he was - he had this wonderful way of constantly reminding her she'd made the right choice by being with him, just through his sweetness and care.