Sakina
I saw his fists clench and I nearly stepped out of the shadows to take him down.
Hold, came the command from Tasmina, as she closed her eyes and reached up and touched his face. It was only when the door had closed behind him that I stepped out from the shadows. We walked in silence until we reached her chambers, where Leela was already sitting waiting with Orsa and Sanaz.
“I was right,” Tasmina sighed, wearily.
We could tell she gained no pleasure from it.
“It has not taken him completely, though. There are glimpses of Lucien underneath. He is fighting it but he doesn’t realise. And he let slip that it was Ruksana,” she said, turning to Sanaz.
She gasped, her hand over her mouth.
“But she was banished. How dare she show her face in Zamee,” Sanaz said, angrily.
“I had a
