“And from the Western Reach, where their children are being too clever, I will also not leave with my hands empty,” Eoghan called out. Correen repeated each of his words across the screams. “Guards, Lady Blackwood will join us on our voyage back to Duncarrow!”
Finally. Byrne’s heated animation beside her was expected. Her own pattering heart at the thought of leaving this man, whom she’d never anticipated loving but did nonetheless, was not.
She reached forward to stay his hand, which lay on the hilt of his knife. She shook her head. “I know what I’m doing, husband.”
“Ash, he’ll cut me down where I stand before I let him—”
Asherley silenced her husband with a firm kiss, and between his lips, she whispered, “I’ve known this moment was coming. It is the only way. Trust me now, as you alw
