Later that night, Gill and Cassandra tucked the baby into his crib. The two of them watched the little bun just lying there in peace for a while.
This was disrupted when Gill wrapped his arms around his wife's stomach.
He leaned down and kissed the side of her head and then her ears. "Are you going to tell me what's wrong?"
Cassandra flinched a bit before her body relaxed, and she ended up just leaning on her husband's shoulder. "I received some news about Jacoba Town," she said.
Since that happened, she had long stopped referring to Jacoba Town as 'home'. At the same time, she naturally remained concerned for it. She grew up there and did have people she knew.
Of course, as a woman, her friends weren't that many. It was difficult to develop genuine friends in her situation. Women were generally expected to have value as a marriage target. Being too close to men could be looked at as scandalous, while it was difficult to have sincere connections with women of the same age.
