"Is it weird for you that you saw me a few hours ago and I'm acting like it's been a lifetime since I saw you last?" he asked as he leaned down to capture her mouth in a deeper kiss than those that had come before. Deeper and more sensual.

He didn't want to ask, except that he couldn't bear not to know if she felt any dissonance over him not being the Kash who'd gotten her pregnant. Been with her as she crashed out of the sky. She didn't seem to, and he knew she'd never treat him differently because if anyone knew how much he needed her, it was she. But her feelings mattered even if they wouldn't change anything.

Everything mattered with Z.