Page 354 of John + Siena: The Complete Duet

“No, I guess it doesn’t,” he eventually said.

“I would really like to start getting the nursery set up, John.”

“Would you?”

Siena shrugged, a soft smile curving her lips. That grin of hers was enough to make him want to kiss her again, so he leaned over and pressed another to the top of her head, murmuring, “All right, I think we can do that.”

“Because we’ll need one.”

John arched an eyebrow and watched Siena in the mirror. “Will we?”

“What names do you like?”

He swallowed hard. The silence stretched on. He didn’t really have to think of a name. One was already at the tip of his tongue, and he’d always wanted to carry it on, if he could. “Luciano for a boy.”

“For your dad,” she said.

John nodded. “And for my grandfather, yeah. Johnathan for a middle name.”

“What about for a girl?”

“I don’t know.”

Siena grinned. “You better figure it out, don’t you think? We’ll need to know.”

Sucking in a quiet, quick breath, John tightened his grip on Siena’s shoulders. Maybe he should have paid more attention to what his wife was saying because yes, he realized as he kept watching her in the mirror, she was trying to tell him something.

Something important. God. This was not at all what he expected to find when he came home tonight, but it was still amazing all the same. Scary because he understood how much their life would change, but still wonderful.

“That so?” he asked.

“I know this isn’t happening the way we talked about it, and—”

“Nothing is ever as I plan, Siena.”

“Are you happy?”

“And terrified,” he admitted. “But so happy.”

Again, the silence came. He didn’t mind.

Siena turned around on the vanity’s chair and pulled John in for a kiss that set his heart on fire. How she was able to do that for him, he would never understand. He would always love her more for it, though.

“I’m going to be a dad?”

His question whispered against her lips. Siena smiled along his when he kissed her again and she replied, “You are—we’re having a baby, John.”