Chapter Sixteen
So many days without her Lord Nor were so like the ones she often endured when he was absent from the castle hunting or at war. Then, however, she could always imagine his return and her heart, while it might pine all the more, would lift a bit thinking of his tender expressions and his heartless ones. She missed them all.
She was warmed by the kindness of Jessamyn and her other dutiful slaves and, of course, Lorio, who, when he was within the castle, almost constantly attended her. When his business took him away, she missed him too.
Reynard was exceedingly kind. In the past he was typically gruff, as he was with all slaves. Now, he gave her respect she had hardly earned. Even the ever more haughty Sophia treated her as a dear sister, though Casia knew the woman’s hea
