Rejected Luna
“You’ve your old man’s curiosity, that much is certain. No, I don’t have any children, nor do I want any. Babies are responsibilities better left to other men. The only thing worse than screaming, snot-nosed children is a harping, nagging wife from which a man cannot escape. I’m my own man, and I like it that way.
My freedom is precious to me.”
“Not all women nag, nor children cry,” Raven countered. “Unlike you, I can’t imagine my world without loved ones in it.” She cast an anxious glance at the old man asleep on the cot, and Eben knew her period of distraction had ended. Poor sick devil Henry clung tenaciously to the life he had left. His chest rose slightly at intervals, then, fell again.
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