“You have until Leif to prove your innocence?” My own demand to Eugan, made in the heat of the moment had come to bite me. Where I’d thought I had gotten rid of him and his intense gaze for a time, his request for my audience had come way too soon. We had reached Leif too soon.
“Why didn't anyone not think of telling me that we were less than a day’s journey from Leif? Why the hell did Eugan not mention it, either? Was he that confident of Leif’s innocence, perhaps? And what if he couldn’t prove it. Was I really willing to march on Leif?
I shifted in my seat, glad to have the privacy of my carriage again. I was anxious. Yet not because of the possibility of a war I did not mean to wage, but because of him. He made me anxious. Him and his all caring self that he’d been towards me since la
