She didn’t know when it happened.
But happen it did. The feeling started as a warm spark, somewhere deep in her belly, and as the days passed, the feeling grew and grew, developing into friendship…and then something more.
And soon her belly grew, and grew and grew.
Allie was the happiest she’d ever been. Somehow, through all the tragedy and chaos of her life, she was making it after all – her own little family, her own little nest.