FREYA
I drop the mindlink and walk fast down the corridor of the council building and I do not look back.
He has taken everything. Forced his ex and her child into our lives after hiding them from me for weeks. My home is no longer mine but ours…I could even say theirs. I have not refused any of it. I have folded one piece of myself after another into the corner of the house he keeps assigning me, and I am still folding.
But not on this.
Not because I have anything to prove. Because if he reaches into this one too I will not survive the rest of the year in that house with my mind intact.
I keep walking.
Halfway down the corridor my hand goes to my belly without me asking it to, and I stop in the middle of the hall.
The baby.
Five years of trying. Miriam's voice from the other day f
