Rikke gave her a hug, which was like hugging cut glass, then she gave Leo a hug, which felt very strange. She held him tight, and smelled that smell he still had, and remembered how she used to feel, snuggling into the warmth of blankets with his arms around her. Safe. She never felt safe any more, and it came to her that if things had been a bit different, maybe she’d be the one carrying his child. Most of her knew they’d never been well matched. But there was a piece of her that’d loved him once. And that piece ached at the loss of him, and the woman she’d been with him, and the life she
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