Dream Love
My body trembled uncontrollably as I relived the nightmare of being stripped bare and strapped to that cold steel while the bloody corpse of a woman stared at me with tortured eyes.
He cradled me close while I cried over the loss of a brother and parents who I never knew. Then, I cried over the loss of parents and a godmother who I did know. I asked him what became of Geordie, but he skirted around the subject. Knowing what I did about the fate of those they abducted, I didn’t press the issue and tried to push it from my mind. I mentioned that it might be nice to name our child Georgie, since the name suited both a boy and a girl. He hedged, saying it wasn’t tradition to name a child af