Page 273 of Under Her Skin
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Lily ‘Little Bean’Storm was born at a quarter after midnight and her mother and father, wilting with exhaustion, couldn’t stop staring at her, her perfect little fingers, her cherubic cheeks, the fine smattering of black hair on her tinyhead.
‘I can’t get over how beautiful she is,’ whispered Jess, shaking her head. Theo smiled, kissing his exhausted wife’stemple.
‘I can. She looks like you. Jessie, you have given me theworld.’
Jess’s eyes filled with tears. ‘You are my world, Theo. You andBean.’
‘Forever.’
‘Forever.’ She agreed and they kissed until the sun came up on a new day, the first day, of their newlife.
The End.
