Chapter Twenty-Four
I closed my eyes and stifled a curse. I slowly inhaled the mingled scents of incense and rotting garbage in an effort to calm myself. What a fool I had been. Of course, the temple was no place for Tahlia. What had I been thinking, taking her to a place filled with murderers and thieves? Did I expect the priests to provide us with room and board, like some kind of inn? Tashidi didn’t even go to the temple, even though he was Admon’s close friend.
I opened my eyes and gave Tahlia a bleak look. I should have taken her home after we had fled from Zamir’s. She would have been safer there. Now what? She could hardly go back to the manse, and she had been seen fleeing with me by the city guard and Admon’s men. Perhaps she could say I had forced her to run with me…
Tahlia re
