MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Eighty Four — Varek
Sael sat at the table.
They looked at the food Davan put in front of them.
They looked at it for a moment.
Like a person reminding themselves that accepting something was allowed.
Then they ate.
Nobody rushed them.
Nobody asked questions while they ate.
This was the table.
The table waited.
Lena watched Sael from the end with the specific attention of someone cataloguing everything for a painting they had not started yet.
Caius watched the door.
Zane watched Mara.
Mara watched Sael.
When Sael finished they looked up.
At the table.
At the people around it.
At the bond between Mara and both men.
At the painting still in the center.
At the sixty fourth territory in the corner.
They held Mara's gaze.
"You knew about us,"
