FREYA
I never hear back from Max but Eli gave me the details I needed and dawn of the following day, we prepare to lay our fallen brothers to rest.
Eli comes out of the closet in an all black suit with a black coat and he waits while I fasten the high collar of mine.
I notice his eyes staring at my fingers curiously as they work but I don't look at him for any second longer.
He has noticed my wedding ring missing but as expected, he doesn't ask about it like any other husband would.
I finish up and we step out of the house together and head to the burial ground.
His hand does not touch the small of my back the way it used to on mornings like this in the first year. We walk a careful foot apart, close enough that the pack reads us as a pair, far enough that I do not feel the heat of
