Assana smiled through her lie. “Some. We will know soon.”
“Do you know what the guards told me?”
She shook her head.
“Last night, while the moon was high, Oldwin summoned Ravenna to his chambers. She didn't leave until dawn.”
Assana’s mouth parted in a light gasp. “What do you think... they’re not allies, surely? Not after what he does to her now, in the courtyard?”
“I think he’s lain with her himself.”
Assana’s heart raced. It thrilled her to be the king’s confidante. But it came with the fear that she would say the wrong thing and lose her ground. “Do you think she went to him willingly?”
Eoghan curled his lip into a snarl, clutching his hands so tight around the edge of the table they turned a deep purple. “He doesn't intend for Ravenna Ravenwood to bear a Rhiagain heir. He inten
