Nicklaus went up to her face level after placing thousands of kisses on her flat stomach. Arissa beamed all the way and let him do his thing.
Nicklaus placed a kiss on her nose tip. He pressed their forehead together, looked into her eyes, and questioned, "You know why I did that?"
Arissa smiled at him. "No. But I might if I should guess,"
"The floor is open," Nicklaus permitted her to guess.
Arissa cleared her throat, "You... you're..." she pondered for a while, and then she laughed, "I can't guess. Just go on and tell me,"
Nicklaus laughed with her, "I'm sending my kisses to your future kids. I might not get to meet them and you might not tell them about me so I want them to know that even before they came into this world they had a place in my heart," he said with a firm tone.
Arissa froze at his words and her heart melted. Her eyes stung and she could not pinpoint the main reason she was close to tears.
