CHAPTER 24

ACE POV

It's been a few days since Freya has been back. Things haven't been quite the same and I'm guessing it's because of the child.

Everytime I would try to talk about it. Freya would just deflect or usually use intercourse as a way to avoid every conversation.

I thought that was what she needed, what would make her happy but I'm beginning to see that it's a way for her to avoid the situation.

She's trying to fake it for me, that nothing is actually wrong with her, but I know her too well to know that she's not fully healed yet. I never expected her to be. But I just wish she would share her burdens with me.

When we weren't sleeping with each other, she was keeping herself busy with tending the gardens, practicing with Yuri, watching the food distributions.

Basically everything she could lay her hand on. Then at night, instead of talking to me, she would rather sleep with me and afterwards go to sleep and that was it, no conversations.

Just blank. I would catch her sobbing at