KARENSA
I just wanted to learn swords with him, but ended up getting tugged into the forest. Not that I didn't like the idea of having some time alone with him.
Had Èmeric been Gervais, I wouldn't have willingly gone with him. Go with my stepbrother, who might throw me over the cliff? Over my freaking dead body!
I would rather fight him to the death — not that I would last a minute in the battle — than follow him down the path Èmeric was leading me. With him, I would willingly go anywhere. Èmeric was the only man who had treated me half as well as my late father. No one else had taken this good care of me.
“Don't worry, we are almost there,” Èmeric said, breaking the silence between us as he used his hands to pave the way for us. The shrubs became thinner as we walked. It had been c
