Juniper Unraveling

“Your name was the first thing that came out of my mouth.”

“Day I saw you on the other side of that wall, I knew I’d do anything to have you. Anything.”

We don’t see the real world. We only see our world.

“I eventually became pregnant. Ivan tried to have me killed, and I lost the baby.”

“My little bird. My Wren.”

My Six.

“My only objective from this day forward is to keep you alive and at my side. And I’ll kill a thousand men to do so.”

“I want you too much, Wren. Scares the shit outta me, how bad I want you right now. Just lookin’ at you makes my chest hurt.”

“You don’t trust my hands on you.”

“I don’t trust myself. It has nothing to do with your hands. Since you came back, it’s all I can think about.”

“I found you here. In a pool of blood.” Papa’s voice reaches me through the confusing swirl of memories. “You’d hemorrhaged.”

“The prisoner managed to escape, but our soldiers tracked him about fifteen miles out, to a Juniper tree.”