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... body as a shield to protect her... it stirred something deep inside her chest. Something old. Something painful.

A memory....

It wasn’t clear at first, but as the maid continued tending to her, those buried images began to surface, memories of her mother. Of the way her mother used to hold her when she was scared or stroke her hair after a nightmare.

The soft hum of her voice. The warmth of her embrace. The way she always placed herself in harm’s way whenever danger came ...

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