Chapter Twenty-Three Cassie and Florian had arrived to give Cariad a break. She’d told them both that she was fine living aboard the Nova Fortuna and caring for the growing babies, but both her techs had insisted that she’d spent long enough on the ship and that she needed a change of scenery. It was true that living in the angled world of the ship’s interior had worn on her nerves, and that Kes was so wrapped up in communicating with the fila that he was poor company. Cariad also had to admit that her emotions were all over the place and she didn’t really know why. The former reasons didn’t seem sufficient to account for her feelings. Cariad felt like there was something else not right with her. She just couldn’t put her finger on it. Perhaps it was only that she missed Ethan. Too much

