#Chapter 180

Theodore’s POV Abigail was my longest resident – ever since she was pregnant with Marlo. After her first year in a tent, I had offered to build her a roof if not a house. She told me she had grown to love her little tent and that it was more important to save my resources for the next pregnant woman who had nowhere to go. So I did. Now the settlement was almost as populous as the rest of Midnight, and I was running out of ways to sustain it. The Shelter Project was a solution for all the problems there. Abigail was an informal leader at the camp along with Ben, who Violet had met the first time she’d come here. When Ben first arrived, he had quite the temper. Putting him in a position of power where people looked to him for answers and offered him respect helped him learn to control it. Sometimes all people needed was to feel like they belonged, like they had something of value to offer. Every now and again, I wondered if that’s what Eva needed. Or even Owen. But some