That was something that he didn't want to get into with her again. Even regardless of his earlier presumptions of human nature, Aaron had decided that if humans had children this way, there really was nothing for it but to let Kay do what she wanted -- it was her body on the line, after all.

Having settled most of that with Cassie had left him more mellow this time around when Kay had announced the second pregnancy. They'd had another handful of years to cope with Cassie's growth, too, and it wasn't as though they were in a dangerous situation to avoid the game of life. The Orphaners didn't count, not when they'd taken such efforts to counter the organization's fingers-in-all-the-pies modus operandi.

"What can I say, I'm a quick study," he told her, kissing the top of her head.