Chapter 206

• Proserpina
• The next day the woman came in with the food. This time, her eyelids fluttered as she sent me a quick glance. I was sitting on the bed, my hand on my stomach.
• It was a quick look and she lowered her pale green eyes but I had seen a flash of pity in them. She had the same clothes that she had worn the previous day and on an impulse, I looked at the man who stood in the doorway. He had his rifle, cocked and easy and he was yawning, scratching his scruffy face as he watched us.