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JENNY

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ELEANOR SINCLAIR

The house felt empty without him.

He was gone, having left behind a silence that hung on my chest, heavy with the ache of his absence and the sulky throb of my C-section wound. There I sat in the room where it had all started—once a maid's room in days past, and now my room as a new mother cradling our newborn son, who slept peacefully against me still, his eyes shut, his nostrils breathing.

Jenny, the nurse Damian had introduced, sat in a chair beside me, her lanky body sitting in a position of tense preparedness that seemed both odd and comforting. All the while, however, my mind was on Damian's promise to search out Helen-Nora. It echoed in my mind as though he spoke it again to my hearing, each word underpinned by his unbreakable confidence, but also reminding me of the dangers he could face.

Somehow, I required him here by my side where I could see him and know that he was safe with me, his steady presence anchoring me and not off there facing death or sending
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