Chapter 104
Branwen did try. She went up to their bedroom and lay on the bed for all of five minutes. Just long enough to think everything through one last time.
She did trust John, and her Uncle Hugh. But she could not possibly put them through this, not when she could make them all safer. If she lost the baby, there was a chance John wouldn’t have to work with them at all.
He’d regret getting involved with Faolin, no matter what he said. His work was too important to him. Letting someone else control him would drive him crazy, and she didn’t want to experience even more of his temper.
And she was still certain she wouldn’t make it through the birth even if she tried. No matter how she approached that in her imagination, she couldn’t see a way to survive it.
Her phobia had lingered p
