The hours moved far too slowly, cooped up within the four small walls of the annex. As a younger man Jason De Straffe would have sold himself, body and soul to spend a day trapped in a bedroom with Sastra Farview. She was truly, still the most beautiful woman he had ever encountered. What was even more gratifying, was the woman he had come to know over the last few seasons. Everything in him was eager to be moving. To be riding as fast and as far from Milany, the King and his army as they possibly could. But he couldn’t deny the exhaustion he’d seen in Sastra’s features. Not once had she ever complained, but the night before she’d been at the point of falling if they’d not taken the chance to rest. It wasn’t like he was going to complain about sharing a bed with the woman. A proper bed, no
