Chapter 109
As a child, she’d bathed with her mother in a barrel not unlike the one she was faced with now. Thinking about her mother was odd. Halle wondered if the woman who had scolded her daughter for climbing too high in the trees and had sung lullabies would recognize the woman Halle had become. It was crushing how different Halle was from the last time she’d been home. Jax leaned against the wall by the soaking barrel. “That’s not what Elecia wrote.” “What isn’t?” She was jarred out of her thoughts. “She said our Lord Ophain made you a Duchess of the West.” Jax folded his arms. It took Halle too long to remember that Elecia was Lord Ophain’s granddaughter. Of course she would have found out. “A hollow title,” Halle laughed. “And you’re quick to offend.” He stilled her amusement. “I take Wes
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