“Shh,” soothed Eve,
moving towards Harlan, resting her head against his chest. “I don’t care what
you’ve done. I love you.” She drew his hand to her belly. He felt a pulse of
life under his palm, faint and hardly there, but strong enough to make him
tremble. Tears fell from his eyes onto her neck.
“Will you still go away
with me?”
Eve looked at Harlan as
if to say,
do you even need to ask
? “Where would we go?”
“Somewhere…somewhere
where it never gets dark.”
“I don’t think any such
place exists.”
“Neither do I,” said
Harlan. “But let’s see if we can find it anyway.”
The
End
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