…She wasn’t blind. Peter was right, Gilburn did want her. Zipporah backed away from her mother. She looked down the stone corridor to make sure no one was there. “I’ve been having dreams about her again,” she said, pressing her hand to her stomach, as if she could make her baby come back to life with nothing but her thoughts. “Seeing him only makes things worse.”
“I suppose that’s to be expected,” her mother said gently. “He’s different now, I can tell. War will change a man. Some return ruined. Some return fixed.”
“Ruined, fixed, what does it matter? We’re not good together. We’ll only hurt each other.”..
Darcy Branwyn 
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