“No s*x until she is completely healed,” Helga tells Anders sternly. “I mean it. Not a little healed, not feeling better- completely healed. She did not pass everything on her own. I had to pull it out myself. But if every pregnancy will end this way…”
She doesn’t finish her statement, but we are all thinking the same thing. It’s not safe for us to have s*x at all.
“I swear,” Anders tells her, his entire demeanor serious. “I will take care of her. We will figure this out. I will not watch her lay on the hay bleeding out again.”
Helga nods, accepting his words before pulling me into a hug. “I am thankful you are still with us. Take it easy with Mani. Let Anders help care for her,” she says, but then leans to my ear to whisper the last. “He loves you so deeply.”
Slowly, we w
