章 451: Alternate Reality

(From Blue's Perspective)

Two days passed since Dem had left. He had sent me a letter yesterday saying he was on his way to the battlefield. He promised to send me a letter if he got any time and would come to visit me in a month. 

The fact that he would be by my side probably for the remaining months of my pregnancy was saddening. But more than being sad, I was scared for his well-being. 

"Don't just sit in your room," Evan said as he walked into the bedroom while I was sitting on a chair with Sapphire on my lap. I was trying to read a book unsuccessfully as my mind kept thinking only about one thing, one person. 

"I have nothing else to do. I am trying to read a book," I said. 

"You," he said, taking the book from me, "are holding it upside down. And this is what you call reading?"

"… Just leave me alone…"