Okay, Midnight as you would rather have it.
***Midnight***the second
He couldn’t sleep, but he didn’t mind. Actually it was a nice way of being sleepless, the nicest imaginable. He couldn’t get enough of the faint sound that was filling the bedroom only for his ears. The faint but rapid heart beat resounded in his lovely wife. It was too quick to count and almost too quick to notice its unsteady rhythm, unlike the much slower and steadier heart beat of Lois. But the flimsy heart continued its work and filled a new little being with life. He drank in every second of it, knowing that this was just for him.
