Brynna shook her head. "She would have told me. Toward the end, she started talking about the baby all the time. She could hardly wait. She said she thought being a mother would be the first thing she’d ever had a chance to do right." Skater worked on keeping his distance from the subject matter. Images of Larisa lying asleep at his side, all baby-soft and cuddly in the early morning light, invaded his mind. "She was living in Bellevue when she died." Duran said. "I know. She wasn’t as happy as I thought she would be. Drek, we used to talk about living in a place like that when we roomed together. Maddock paid for it."