Chapter 45: GIDEON

I have to make arrangements for her father's funeral; as much as I hate the bastard I know she'd want that so I’m doing it for her. She's looking better this morning, then again so am I. That's what a morning spent in bed together loving each other will do. She hasn’t brought up the shit that’s been going on in our lives yet today and I was glad for that. I wished she could have just one day free of the darkness.

"Gideon, why haven't you been going to work? I'll be fine here by myself if you need to go into the office I'm not a baby you know."

I think I've heard that same refrain at least ten times in two days. I've given up trying to explain to her. Somehow she seems to have been stripped of her fears. Either that or she really trusted me to have the necessary things in place to keep her from harm.