The Importance of Being Human Part 5
Our happiness was not long-lived, though. After a couple months, Finnr started feeling weak and tired. The village healers came to him and declared it the same illness that had taken his mother. I knew that. I sensed it when I examined him while he slept one afternoon. No matter how much I tried to convince him, he wouldn’t let me heal him. I pestered him for months as my body grew and his body weakened further. This wasn’t what I’d been promised. This wasn’t what I’d agreed to when I became his wife. How could he make me love him and leave me alone like this? Who was going to teach our child how to be human? He’d made me promise not to heal anyone without permission for as long as I was his wife. I couldn’t break a promise. Being an oath breaker was serious among the fae. Seven mont
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