Eric hums in agreement. "Colorful, you mean." He downs the rest of his drink. "But it could be avoided with the right... sacrifice. If letting her go haunts you so, we could wait until she's had the child. That way, you can keep her and beat Ronan at his own game, too."
It is a solid idea, one I have mulled over myself and thrashed. I may be regarded as cruel, but tearing a mother from her child for my own gain? That's a different breed of monster. Seraphina would never forgive me for it.
I must have said the last part aloud because Eric says, "You don't need her forgiveness to keep her. She signed the contract, did she not?"
Ah, that.
The little clause at the bottom, the one written in just-faded-enough ink, stating that she could only annul our marriage if I allowed it. Signing the p
