"Do you mean Hugo's? Or one of your nieces or nephews?" Jo asked with some annoyance. Zach's birthday was in November, something Jo was acutely aware of as she ensured they spent the night wrapped in one another's arms. They hadn't been intimate, of course, her injury was too fresh then. But the facts remained that Juliana was lying.

"Is there something you'd like to say?" She asked in a low voice, accutely aware of their surroundings for the first time throughout the conversation.