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Chapter 6

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Freya

I lay there long after the healer left, staring at the white ceiling as if it might split open and offer me an answer.

It didn’t.

The room smelled of antiseptic and crushed herbs. It was too clean, too quiet, like nothing terrible had happened here and the contrast of it all made me sick.

I hated that it filled me with hope and a faux sense of happiness, like I had not been rejected in front of an entire court, like I was not four, maybe five, weeks pregnant.

My hand drifted to my stoma
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