Broken Antler Fen Now you've got to work for a living.

she basked in reyes' nearness.
his words hung beside her ear, weighted with something inexplicable. the coast brought her again to mind of her former lover. bridget had gone and had not come back. she must look, she must —
reyes wanted to take his children to meet their grandmothers. and for a surging, sinking moment, teya realized how her feelings of wildness had turned slowly toward domesticity.
"yes."
she slowly pulled away to find his eyes with her coolwater gaze. "you want to take me to visit mothers?"
reyes meant this. he meant them to travel as a family — or as a pair.
her heartbeat thudded so loudly she felt it might leap into her throat.