Chapter 131

CLAUDIA. “We don’t need to find out now,” Achilles says, holding me against him. His hand is on my belly as though checking for something, and I can’t blame him for this gesture. The things that have happened, how we almost lost our baby… those things were not long ago. “You can stop now. We can just call it a night for now and come back to this in the morning.” “I agree,” Aristea says. “The important thing is you can do it. You can read his mind. We don’t need to get to the bottom of the problem right now.” I know that they are right. I know that I should probably not push myself too far. I mean, it’s not like Larkin has any place to go. He would still be here at night when I come back for him, and I can still do what I was meant to do in the first place. But a part of me feels like this is the only chance I would ever get. However, before I can say anything, Achilles is already steering me away from Larkin, who keeps crying out and saying that he shouldn’t have done it. The ang