Melody relaxed. She wanted to embrace him—but knew from his expression that it wasn’t the time. He wouldn’t understand just how much that promise meant to her. “I don’t want to cage you up. I…” She sighed. “I had some really shit parents. I was out before I was ten, ward of the state… I don’t want our child to be like that. If I deliver this baby, I’m gonna give them a real parent. I’ll… I’ll give them what I never had. What Lucky got from Lightning Dust.