Hesitantly, she nodded. She knew everything he was saying was true, yeah, but it wouldn't stop her from worrying about him every time he stepped outside of those walls. “But it's like you always used to say, you know? You always used to worry yourself almost sick when I left. And we knew that I was...” she shook her head abruptly, nodding when he promised that he didn't plan to leave her. “I know. Thanks babe. I believe you. It's just... not easy. You know?” Of course he did.
“And we'd have been rich then, too. And we could live wherever we wanted to,” and Little One wouldn't be confined to inside prison walls to stay safe, she thought. “I like this theoretical world,” she mused.
She laughed and pretended to look pensive, then shrugged. “Well, I did say that you had all the perks of ruling, didn't you?” she asked, looking at him matter-of-factly. “You can totally throw any dude you so choose into the pit of lions. The lions are equal opportunity nommers. My only stipulation there is that you start with Brandon Stone.” She winked. “Figure that's something we can agree on.”
Though she wondered, she was glad that she hadn't kissed him on the first night, too. “So am I. Even though I do kind of wish one of us had spoken up sooner... that's a little too soon,” she chuckled, looking down in slight embarrassment. “Just something I think about sometimes, you know? Different things that might've happened and what they'd have changed.” She turned her head and looked back up at him again, and a smile crept across her face when he mentioned their first night as a couple. “That was a pretty good night, wasn't it? I was pretty sensational, if I recall,” she wagged her eyebrows, then paused, sighing in playful resignation. “Oh yeah. And you were pretty good too, I guess.”
Rae loved that. How much he loved their little baby, before it was even born yet. “That's okay, Nadi,” she emphasized the name they'd chosen for a girl. “We know you're really a little lady in there, don't we?” she asked with a nod.
Jutting her lip out and shrugging a shoulder, she smirked wryly. “What's our usual bet? A full body massage... and whatever happens after that?” she wagged her eyebrows, then thought again for a second. “And bragging rights. Obviously the bragging rights. Which I fully intend to exercise when we find out I'm right, naturally.”
Despite the fact that he, once again, pointed out that he thought their baby was a boy, Rae chuckled a little. “You feel that hand, Little One?” she asked, eyes lowered as she talked to her tummy. “That's your daddy,” her eyes raised to look at Elliot for a second, but her head stayed ducked. “He's gonna be a pretty spectacular daddy, I can tell you that right now. He's smart, loving, gentle, good… everything a good daddy's supposed to be, and he loves you like crazy already. I bet you're excited to meet him, huh?” she asked the baby. Even though she knew it was just a coincidence, she felt another kick against their joined hands. She looked back up at Elliot. “Pretty sure that's a yes.”