28 Amelia
As I lay down that night to sleep in my sleeping bag, secretly holding hands with Aisling and listening to Reece and Keane talking in hushed tones, I still couldn’t help thinking about the possibility that we could die on our mission tomorrow. It was the same thought that gave me insomnia the night before.
The thought of losing any of these people that I’d come to know these past few weeks was unbearable. So I couldn’t stop worrying about it.
The past few weeks of staying in this villa together had helped me to see the allure of having a big family. I loved every member of our awkwardly thrown together family, including Commander Brogan, who usually behaved like a wallflower all the time.
For the first time in a long time, I found myself praying that the Moon goddess would
