The women shared a glance and stifled giggles as the men fled.

"So how are you holding up with this whole fake marriage thing?" Lori lifted the babe to her breast with a tender smile and encouraging words that were not, Anissa noted, the goo-ing sort of baby talk she had disparaged moments earlier.

Anissa dipped her head. "It would be easy, very easy, to forget that it is a ruse. David is - a very special sort of man. But then you must know that."

Lori's laugh was wry and ...