Two more days passed; my time filled with meetings forced me to send Eva to the harem so that I was assured of her safety. Besides being beautiful, she was a reasonable woman and understood why I could not keep her with me. A s******g had certainly helped with that. Because of this, I did not have another hairbrush tossed at my head.
It wasn’t Eva who was complaining, it was the other councilors. I sat at my usual seat above the others and listened to them grumble.
“We did not witness the first f*****g and we have not laid eyes on her. Only mates in the harem can confirm her existence.” Councilor Bertok was a continued nuisance.
“Councilor Tark is not at home. Surely you can understand his need to protect his mate,” Roark replied.
“From whom?” the old man asked. “She’s the murderer. It
