Chapter 87 Ambivalent Ii

• Mercedes’s [POV]
• "Judge." I stop in the entryway, peeking up at him from beneath my lashes. I’m half afraid of what I might see in his eyes, but it doesn't matter because he won't look at me. He's staring into the distance, his jaw set, something unreadable in his expression. He didn't talk to me the entire way home.
• I know he's thinking about the baby right now... I didn't dare tell him there are two, but I can't stop thinking about his wounds. He took that flesh payment for me. It means something. It means everything. But he's so shut down I can't get through to him.