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“She gave me five years, Axel. Agreeing to those terms saved everyone and gave me a chance to bring you out alive.”
Five years; incarcerated for three. Axel didn’t want to think what Daymer planned for him after then. “You had no way to know she would keep the bargain.”
“No, nothing but her reputation for keeping her promises, if you can be precise enough. She’s gained a lot of power through exchanging favours. If she never kept her word, no one would ever offer her the inside details she so often desires.”
“Still, she’s twisted the agreements.”
“Yes,” Sela confirmed. “A man who made her promise not to harm his wife and children in exchange for information, she tortured him to death, instead. If you can meet my eyes now and say you’ll never risk my life to protect our child, s
