Chapter 262. Faith

Proserpina

I had come awake a while ago, not long after I had drifted off into a tired sleep, my children beside me. Despite having an enormous bed, they managed to zero down to the space around me. I smiled. They were now in a tangled heap of arms and legs, in the centre of the bed. Claude kept stroking the earlobe of the person beside him, a gesture that comforted him, I had noticed. Now he was doing that to Piers in his sleep. He had tried it with Ria who had slapped his hand away fiercely, irritated inspite of being fast sleep. Piers, calm and collected as ever, allowed him to do it and the boys were soon snoring gently.

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I did not have my nightmares these nights, I reflected gratefully, thanks to Dr. Asha and her therapy.

She had made me unburden myself and I knew that the healing within me, a healing that should have happened a long while ago, was finally beginning.

Beginning with my parents, whom I had never seen or known, to