And that conveyed everything she wanted to say to him. That she wouldn’t argue, and that he couldn’t change her. That he couldn’t shame her. Her smile grew wider as she kept walking away from him, flush from the kind of success she rarely had.
Until she saw a familiar form watching her. And stopped dead in her tracks.
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THE RELIEF AURIS FELT when she heard that her cousin was back in camp was instinctive. Before she thought of her personal problems with Saig, before she worried about how she’d deal with the inevitable issues her cousin would bring, all she felt was pure, unadulterated relief that Saig had made it back safe.
And suddenly, she had to see her. Just for a moment. Just to be sure. A nervous energy drove her, as she searched, something perilously close to excitement. She ha
