Unmatched Wife: Not His To Claim Anymore novel Chapter 194

Chapter 194

Chapter 194

Chapter 194

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rink was that I had noticed it on the second time.

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ought it to me, I had been thinking about other things about Dad in the study with his friends, about ownstairs that I could hear but not make out, about the Ankylosaurus in my pocket and whether I should mation or keep it with me. I had drunk the drink without paying full attention, which was the kind of thing en your mind was somewhere else.

me, I had been paying more attention.

he same as it always had. The honey and the warmth and the specific quality of the drink she’d been making me since which was one of the things I had added to my mental list of things that were ours, hers and mine, the small specific that made up what we were to each other.

there was something underneath the familiar tast Not a different flavour exactly. More like a different weight. A thickness the warmth that hadn’t been there before, or t

noticed before, and I couldn’t decide which.

After the second time, I had felt tired in a w running around. A heavier tired, the kin move more slowly than they should.

I had figured it was the sickness.

I had been sick before, plent hadn’t done the healing night before sleep, b feel as comfort ra

damage.

ent from ordinary tired. Not the tired of a long day or too much Dones rather than my muscles, the kind that made my thoughts

ess always made me tired in ways that crept up without warning. And she e longest she’d gone without it since she’d started doing it regularly. Every ack, the specific sensation of the counter-resonance work that I had learned to ade me stronger, she had told me, it helped my body manage the residual curse

Without

probably why the tired was heavier.

night, lying in bed in the dark, feeling the specific bone-tired that had been building since h the whole conversation in my head, the way I sometimes did before conversations I was at I would say and what she would probably say and what I would say after that.

ersation ended the same way.

healing meant making her sit with me before sleep, meant having her hands on my back in the someone doing something that required concentration and care, meant taking an hour of her time and ing that was about me. And she had just found out that ‘Theo was not going to get those things from her.

was in Silver Moon territory having actual son, the one she had carried and raised and lost and grieved king friends and building a life that didn’t have her in it.

sit with me and make me stronger

1. I was here. Those two

e healing,

est thing I could do.

ld feel the shape of even if I couldn’t fully

she could de rather than

cause she was the one who tch and crouched down to

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my level when I asked important questions and held me in the specific way that felt like being held by someone who had decided I was the most important thing in the room.

I wanted her here because she was mine and I was hers and that had felt completely certain until four days ago.

It still felt certain. I was still certain of it.

uncertain of it in the specific way that made me stay in my room or the living room and not go looking for her, ng for her meant finding out h version of certain was true.

s was manageable. I had i a while longer.

tions, which did a different but overlapping job. I could manage without the

ould wait until she was less sa

The phone thing had happ

I had come downstairs had been at the kitche the stairs, and by the

A photograph.

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