Chapter 108

　　Sleep Walk

　　Tessa pushed the curly black hair off her baby’s face and caressed her cheek with her fingertips. A gummy grin curled up under the newborn’s mouth, and Tessa leaned in to rub the tip of her nose against her daughter’s. “You were wrong, baby; she looks like you. Just look at those big, brown eyes.”

　　As she leaned back on his hand against the dock’s old wooden boards, Rafik peeked down into his daughter’s face and glanced at Tessa. “But that smile is yours, my darling one.”

　　After she inhaled a deep breath of the sea air, she moaned as she opened her eyes. She squinted while the boats in the harbor went out of focus, and the sky beyond the horizon melted like ice cream into a smudged pink and orange sunset. “This isn’t real, is it?”

　　His head swung right to left as he joined her in watching the ships move back and forth on the water. “Not yet, but someday. I promise you.”