The Decks and the Road book 1- Freeborn Chapter 8 Erilyn - My Husband was a strong and handsome man.  He had so much heart.  I knew he still had heart for me, but I didn’t know how much.  We were happy to have each other, but I don’t know if we were happy with each other anymore.  I saw him every day, but I wasn’t sure if he saw me.  We danced around each other, sometimes we bumped into each other, other times we pecked each other on the lips, and we always slept together, but the distance between us continued to grow.  I knew the secret I held had always kept me at a distance, but I didn’t know if all the distance between us was my own.  Over the years it grew.  It felt as though it was too big now to close, and now that Natalie didn’t need us as much, even she looked uncomfortable with it.  Each of us looked at it, thought about it, and probably in our own mind examined it, but none of us dared to go near it.  Anyway, ...