I worry about you,” he finally said to Free. “I’m afraid that you’re going to break your heart, going up against the world.”

“No.” The wind caught her hair and sent it swirling behind her. “I’m going to break the world.

“Your boy here-" Ware jerked his head in angry indication "can't explain himself…”

“He was nothing but a deep abyss of want, and only she could fill him.”

“Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?'His father di…”

“For himself... He could rarely think of how to respond when immersed in that he…”