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sa

want after having my visions. Alexander. He seems to have sensed what

ream?” He asks

ath through the soaring adrenaline which came as part of the afterma

se could

ness coming. Alex, something bad is about to happen I can feel it in my body. We always knew

ou have to rest. You need to be strong for the baby.” His hand came to r

we had agreed our family was complete. But obviously the universe had other plans, and now thre

e twin, I never had sickness, or discomfort. But this time, I was making up for it. Bouts of running to the latrine taking me at the most inconvenient of times. It had led us to make the pregna

. Sometimes I woke just with a bad feeling, while on other nights, I wake having rem

I said the n

Alex m

is coming. His n

ffled as he pulls himself in

nything like before, are you

you recogni

mething from his past. “My mother once talked about a demon that lived in the shadowed

oke. The name alone was enough to pl

hand to his pace and using my thump to s

rom the bed, settling a lingering kiss to my brow. “Sleep now

the outskirts of the small pool of light the moon emi

ile in his voice as he called me by one of the few pet n

st. Alex had always been an early riser. Often leaving before I had woken. It was a rare morning I found myself s

t in his arms counted. I had no idea why I felt this way all of a sudden. I ha

tired. And I could feel sleep trying to pull me back into its warm embrace. But despite m

t, I drag my body from the bed and pad across the cold wooden board

haps there were a few more feminine touches here and there. But it was

ssing from the space

e other side of the castle. I plod to th

my feet were blocks of ice. And my bod

had hoped to never have to see again. A face that stoked a j

y, who never seem

sneering face and that of my mates