Chapter 320: Sponge Me Down

She barely slept that night, visions of finding him either frozen and barely alive or dead from his wound haunted her. She hated him. He was the cause of a lot of the bad things that happened to her in the last few years, but even so, she couldn't bring herself to enjoy the thought of him suf-fering in that pit.

She sat against the wall, in the smallest room, rocking, while Killer nudged her with his nose. "I want the alien gone and my baby back, Killer."

Killer made a soft moaning sound, showing his sympathy. During the day, she kept busy on the farm, trying to survive on her own. But at night, sitting in this shell of a house, cold and with nothing to do and no lights unless she wanted to use her torch or burn her precious candles, she couldn't run from her sorrow. "What did I do wrong, Killer? Why am I punished like this?"