Lina nodded. "You can decide."
Zuko placed his hand on her belly. With the months passing, he could sometimes feel the baby's movements. Right now, their little one seemed to respond to his touch as if greeting him.
"By the way, there's a secret I want to tell you..." Lina's smile was radiant. She leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Our baby... is a girl!"
"What?" Zuko's heart skipped a beat, and he could not react for a moment. He was so happy this time that he could not even manage a smile.
"A-Are you sure? How did you find out?"
Lina giggled embarrassedly. "I pestered the doctor until she told me! She kept saying that there are rules against revealing the gender during ultrasounds, but she told me to prepare a princess bed after the checkup!"
Zuko was overjoyed, and he almost gave Lina a princess carry. He remembered his mother saying that the Hamertons had always been having more sons than daughters. In Zephyr's generation, all the others were boys aside from Zennie.
Going on, it was Zuko and Toph. Moreover, there was a superstition that Cordelia needed to have seven sons before they would finally have a daughter. It was why she stopped after giving birth to them both. Zephyr had always been a little regretful that he had no daughters.
Now, Zuko had a daughter!
He was ecstatic and could not wait to call and share the news with his entire family.
"Stay calm for now!" Lina admonished. "Sometimes, ultrasounds can be wrong…"
"No, no!" Zuko was sure. "I know it's a daughter!"
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Married a Secret Billionaire