Lady Jane Felsham was looking herself into a mirror, her flat stomach began to show a very little bump. She was 20 weeks pregnant. Alexander wasn't really happy, at first he had been angry with Jane for weeks, until he started to ignore the wee thing growing in Jane's womb. While Jane obviously was a mix of shock and happiness.

Lovejoy instead have been taken care of Jane since day when the test came out positive, he actually read test's result, because Jane was in a kind of shock sitting on bathroom's floor. He always slept on Felsham Hall sofa when Alex was away to be with Jane, he rubbed her back and take her hair when morning sickness hit her hardly, he helped her to climb the stairs to her bedroom almost every night when she felt to tired or to weak to climb that fourteen steps to her room.

That night Lovejoy was at home, Alexander just arrived from a trip and he was packing for another one. Jane was painting a panel to put on a cupboard wanted by a rich Russian woman. Jane glanced at the clock, it was 7 o'clock, she was a bit hungry. She stood up too quickly and her head begun to spin, it was a normal thing for Jane during that period, her blood pressure was too low.

She'd gone to the doctor the day before and wanted to show Alex the ultrasound.

"Alex, look at that" said Jane when they were sitting at the table for dinner.

"What is this?"

"It's my ultrasound, our child is growing very well..."

"I don't know what to say, I can't see anything, which of this spots is the child?"

"This one" said Jane putting a finger on the sheet.

"Well, how long are you I don't remember..."

"I am 20 weeks and something along"

"I don't if I could be home for the birth..."

"Why?"

"I don't know about the trips..."

"You can take a little period off, only a week or two, to be sure to be there when it is born" said Jane rubbing gently her baby bump.

"It could be difficult... you could have Lovejoy instead."

"It isn't the same thing I dare say" Jane was on the verge of tears.

Alex got up from the chair and went in their bedroom to make the bag for his trip to Glasgow, he left Jane in the dining room, extremely sad and extremely angry.

Jane was exhausted, she could barely walk to their room. She looked pale, the baby was OK, but her absolutely not, she didn't gain enough weight, she lost 3 kilos with the morning sickness and her blood pressure was too low.

She was in bed with Alexander

"Alex, do you want to see my baby bump?" asked Jane

"Why?"

Jane closed her book, switched of the light on her nightstand and turn her back to Alexander, two tears streamed down her cheek.

Alexander went down another time, Jane knew that he went too often in Glasgow, but she'd never asked anything about his trips, really he had another woman in Glasgow, poor Jane.

The day after Jane woke up with Alexander. She wanted a kiss, only a kiss, even on her forehead she didn't mind, but she needed really a kiss.

"Bye!" Alex left Jane in the hall of the house, she waited until she could see the car, the she collapsed in tears on the carpet, she cried for hours, she thought because when Lovejoy arrived with Tinker she was still here, hair in a mess,eyes red and achy, her back didn't agree with that position, curled on the floor, and the wee reminded Jane its presence in her womb.

"Janey, what's the matter?" asked Lovejoy

"I argued with Alex, he left without a word. I feel awfully" replied Jane

Lovejoy lifted Jane from the floor, lied her down on the sofa, he put a pillow under her feet and finally put a hand on Jane's baby bump. She seemed to relax, Lovejoy's touch was something miraculous.

"It is active this morning..." said Lovejoy rubbing a little Jane's stomach.

"Yes, it is."

Lovejoy and Tinker came to Felsham Hall to pick up Jane to go to Cambridge for an auction. Jane wanted to go with them, she felt good and she wanted to be busy. She couldn't have waited for the birth sitting on the sofa.

Even if Lovejoy wanted that Jane took some rest that day they went together to auction, it was useful for Jane she didn't think at all about Alexander and she was better.

They worked in Lovejoy's shop until 5 in the afternoon, without eating, even if Lovejoy asked about 1000 times Jane if she would be hungry.

"Janey, do you like some tea?" asked Lovejoy when they arrived at Falsham Hall

She nodded, but the phone rang before Lovejoy could put the kettle on.

"Lady Jane Felsham?"

"Lady Jane, I am Alexander's assistant, your husband had a car accident in Glasgow, he is in hospital."

All the colours drain from Jane's face, she felt fainting, Lovejoy grabbed her and put her on the sofa. And she said:"We have to go to Glasgow, come on."

Lovejoy knew that the woman talking to Jane was really the mistress of Alexander.

Lovejoy drove to Glasgow without any stops, he wandered how she could resist with her weak bladder. He looked at her, how tense she was and how would have been tense at night her belly.

In hospital a young doctor introduced herself as Doctor McLaine explain them the injuries and Alexander's general condition. She let Jane see him, she took his hand and put it on the base of her baby bump. The baby gave a little sign of his or her presence.

"Lady Jane, I think is better for you to find an hotel close to the hospital for the night, I don't want you here overnight, in your conditions the best thing you can do now is go to an hotel, have a hot bath and then a lie down. We will see tomorrow"

When Jane went to the bathroom the doctor said Lovejoy:"In case of bad news I inform you at first, I think Lady Jane is a bit upset and a bad news could be dangerous, even she passes the first trimester."

Lovejoy and Lady Jane found a little hotel near the hospital, the concierge said that most of guest were patients' relatives or doctors. He gave them a room with the bathtub, Lovejoy eased Jane on the bed, helped her to take of her jacket and her shoes, then he put a pillow under her feet and went to fill the bathtub.

"Janey, the bath's ready, you can come, do you want an help to undress?"

Jane addressed to the bathroom got undressed and the soaked in the warm water, she felt her nerves relaxed, but she felt her belly quite tense. She thought about Alexander and started to cry.

After 40 minutes Lovejoy knocked at the door of the bathroom, Jane was still crying, her arms were wrapped against her breast, Lovejoy said:"Jane, out of water... We have to eat some diner."

"I am not hungry at all."

"Jane you didn't eat anything from lunch, even only a piece of toast, but the baby needs food, you too"

Jane felt exposed, Lovejoy gave her a towel and took her to the bed, then he called the room service. He ordered sausages and beans for him and tea and toast for Jane.

She was on the bed propped up three pillows and with a pillow under her feet, her ankles swelled when she was tired or stressed or both of them or when she stood up for a too long time. After dinner Lovejoy finally was able to feel Jane's bump. He rest a hand very gently on the top, he felt a little kick, but he was worried, her belly was hard like a stone, he could feel very well her tension.

"Janey, try to relax" said Lovejoy rubbing Jane's ankles, but she was too angry and worried for Alexander to relax.

Jane finally fell asleep, but she tossed and turned all night, until Lovejoy took her in his arms. But in that moment he heard a knock at the door, he prayed when he came to open the door.

"Mr Lovejoy, phone call from the hospital..."

Alexander was dead, lungs faillure.