“I know. He told me when he brought the medicine.”
“He did?”
“Yes. He smelled of soot and was coughing quite a bit. I guess he waited until they left and tried to save what he could, along with a few of your guards who were hidden away in the woods, but he said it’s basically all gone now except for the basement.”
Kit swallowed hard, thinking about what had transpired down there. She felt a little foolish for reacting the way she had. Perhaps she should’ve been easier on her friend. Remembering Cassius’s expression when he noticed she didn’t have a stay, she blurted, “He didn’t pleasure me.”
Only the soft sound of the water gently stirring troubled the silence for a long moment until he said, “I didn’t ask.”
“I know.” She turned her head, moving her hips away a bit so she could look a
