"\I hope so./"

Hopes she feels it when he's holding her, at least. Hopes she understands it when he drops a kiss to her forehead, briefly rests a hand on the swell of her stomach and smooths protectively over where the boy had kicked before.

Hopes she understands that he's got to stand up and start neatening his cuffs, dusting off his knees, getting his mind whirling again. "\I'm going to need you to go to a hotel. I'll come tonight./"