What the Night Holds

Sophia's POV

Two months after Leonidas died.

The pregnancy was at its full, final weight — the specific, enormous, entirely un-ignorable presence of a child who had decided that the space available to him was no longer sufficient and was making this known with increasing frequency and decreasing subtlety. Sleep was theoretical. Comfort was a memory. The castle's physician visited every three days with the careful, systematic attention of a man who understood that the ...