Chapter Eight
Yehfe had to race to catch up with his brother’s march. “Are you so ready to be free of our guests?”
“They are not guests.” Pakua didn’t slow his steps. “They are captives. I have provided them with their key to freedom. You are discontent because you have designs on that female.”
“Beulah? She is mated.”
The news that Beulah and her family would be returning home hit Yehfe in both his hearts. He’d only sat with Beulah for three cycles. The first time when she’d come looking for her daughter and left behind a little bit of trust in him. The other times she’d helped him with the youngling’s lessons. She had an amazing talent for explanations. And she also fed him information about her secluded sister.
“Not the mother,” said Pakua. “The unattached one who is full of fear an
