na

e guest room, but

the countryside

ached for the knowledge that armed

stillness, I walked

under my boots. The night air was

g up at the stars. They were brighte

se same stars and won

is small, simple life that

door opened

dn't

dn't

was

otectively on her belly. She moved with the heavy

ts, I shoul

She was living the life

and guileless in the moonlig

olen him. She

sit on the

rubbing her lower spine

ar along,

nths. It'

so

h

He used to tell me that our son

on would

c? A simp

e you," I sa

d out before I c

rised. "Why wou

ng him bef

d down at

e whispered. "He was... it was bad

ed at th

on my kitchen table because the nearest hosp

at me, her e

stared at the door like he was wai

as,"

shiv

lly. But I know he's dangerous. I've seen the

pa

had kn

raile

d known?"

a past like that... I might have run," she admitted. "I'm

e door where Dan

looked at me. And he wasn't a

ling until my knu

her. Because he had f

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anything," Mia s

ng in the ai

mp

r

evast

hur. And Arth

oretti

had come to drag his c