Erik has wanted to be a father for as long as he can remember -- but now that the day is finally here, he's terrified. Surely a ham-fisted Viking of a man like Erik shouldn't be allowed to handle things as tiny and delicate as his new baby girl?<br><br>But it's not just his daughter that's come into Erik's world. His partner has finally returned too. After nine months of watching Andreas struggle with the mental and physical toll of being a man and being pregnant at the same time, the birth of their daughter is both a beginning and an ending.<br><br>Erik is a father for the first time -- but not everything that comes next is new.

Erik the Pink

“I meant to ask, did your parents split up?”


“And you’re Andreas M?o De Ferro.”


“So—how is your mum not Isabel M?o De Ferro?”


“Ah.” Andreas snorted. “Okay. So. My full name is Andreas M?o De Ferro Bibiano Frazao Alvarez.”


“We only used my parents’ first two, it got a bit much. You can go on for weeks with Spanish surnames.”


Andreas laughed. “That’s how Spanish surnames work. We take both our parents’ names, and not our partner’s name.”


“I don’t get it,” Erik said blankly.


“If we used Spanish convention,” Andreas said, “then Beatriz would be Beatriz Lerouge M?o De Ferro.”


“So my father was Jo?o M?o De Ferro Frazao, and my mother was Isabel Bibiano Alvarez. Put the two together—”


Chapter 27