27 BUT OF COURSE Izramith would never find out what it was like to give birth, because her contract with Indor was dead and if ever she got out of this mess, she’d sign up for some sort of mercenary position. Briefly, just briefly, she’d tasted life as a woman with her own family, but now she had gone back to feeling sorry for all the twenty-three little boys, who, even though they were unwanted, would still have a life much better than her nephew. For that matter, what did this dignified, beautiful woman see in an arrogant arsehole like Daya? Since when did a woman have to apologise for the actions of her partner? She crossed the yard back to the street and hesitated just outside the gate in the shadow of the trees. Light still burned in the house of the Andrahar family. If she walked

