Working on Rebirth and Affliction

I am getting chapter 14 completed and posted tonight if it's the last thing I do. 

World's tiniest sneak peek below:

I'd known, even back then, that I would willingly die to protect her, willingly kill to protect her, willingly run away with her. I hadn't, however, understood her equivalent to it.

Now I did.

She loved me. I smiled to myself. She loved me.

I got up.