Chapter 62

[1750 B.C.]Calisto's POV

Loren stared at me for hours as if that alone would make me admit something I hadn’t done -, but when I finally fell asleep, I slipped my fingers across her face and found myself humming a song I long thought I’d forgotten.

My eyes looked for a smiling face near the windows, but... it wasn’t there.

It had been many years since I had been there and I could not conform because that smile had never been seen by my son’s bicolor eyes.

"I wish you were here," I heard myself say as I sank my face into the pillow next to Loren.

How long has it been since I had a good night’s sleep?

Quinn’s gentle smile came to mind; right... it had been that night.

In the one where the moon was bluish and she hummed in our bedroom window with her hands over her belly that had not even begun to grow.

"What are you doing?" I asked and she stared at me with a huge smile.

"I’m singing... and I’m letting our little sun see the beauti