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"Everything else?"

Lying back down in his arms, I went on to tell Wolfe about all I had discovered, what I thought of the people of Phaedra and the e governed

"What’s the use in the evocation if we don’t solidify its properties with good governood people are lu is done to help theree that people are people no ood, bad; it’s all to do with the person And there are certain people I intend to see punished for their crimes, such as Markiz Solo bad when the evocation strengthens again When Haydyn is well"

I growled in frustration "Not in Alvernia Haydyn’s evocation begins to wane, and people like L and her fa to live side by side with uncivilised, foul people who need laws and consequences What if the evocation is wrong, Wolfe? Do you really think it gives us peace and freedom? Or is it just the pretence of it?"

His chest rose and fell beneath my ear with deep exhalation "That’s a philosophical question that not only needs time to mull over but… can really only be posed to one person"

"Haydyn"

"Yes Haydyn" Wolfe kissed htly on the lips and slid out of bed

I took delicious enjoy him dress I bit my lip It was all just as Haydyn prorinned back at me as he buttoned his shirt, and then leaned over to kiss me deeply I moaned at the taste of hi to pull him back down If he left the rooainst reat reluctance that he did so "I have to leave before someone finds me here"

I dropped ether I bitI’d have to think about if we did begin an affair

I nodded nu ain

"You are so beautiful," he toldh, Wolfe picked up his jacket and strode to the door Just as he was about to disappear out of it, he turned back to an," he proood, we’ll getHaydyn of what’s right"

Wolfe was gone before I could respond, roaned and flopped back onforward to that Not one little bit

Chapter Thirty One

Ariana was quite possibly the sweetest person I had ever met; even more so than Haydyn which was quite a feat In contrast to L, it was alruff and straightforward, the other so gentle and affable Despite the effaceable i to sit at a beautiful breakfast table, with refined people, and eat su of all the tian instead of Miss He’d be happy to know in the end he was right I’d been raised a lady since I was a girl and that had made more of a mark on me than I’d come to realise It was time to accept who I was

We ate companionably, just Ariana and I, as Grof Krill had business to attend to He still hadn’t returned by the ti to leave, so I told Ariana to thank him for his hospitality and to tell hi the Autuan," Ariana hugged me quickly, informally, "It’s been such a pleasure, I do wish you could stay longer"

I thought of the pack that was being tied to Midnight as we spoke The pack with the So We were so close now I sht of Wolfe out of the corner of les shot out ofhorse My stomach fluttered with nerves I needed to tell hiht, it wasn’t as if he’d actually asked me to marry him He’d just told me With another farewell to Ariana, I lifted my skirts and tried to act casually as I strode over to Wolfe I touched his leg, and he glanced down, hisinto the warmest smile he’d ever bestowed on an?"

For once I didn’t argue with the title "Wolfe," I responded in a low voice, glancing around to e?" I asked, raisingfar too close to an," he hissed in inity We have to marry"

I flinched back "No" I told hi into his face All the reasons I had for notmy pride ell… he hadn’t asked me!

In his usual exasperation, Wolfe rolled his eyes, scraping a hand through his thick hair "Rogan, don’t do this" He glanced around, catching Chaeron’s eye (who quickly looked ahistling under his breath as if he hadn’t been trying to eavesdrop) "We’ll discuss this later" He eyedto discuss I’irl I tried to telllike, I flounced away in a dra at Wolfe again I kept seeing that siven me when I’d first approached him It made me want to throw all my silly reasons out the as such a befuddled mess With no one to confide in without Haydyn, it see out the truths from the excuses I sh Raphizya

Once Haydyn was ads for Wolfe Talk them over with her I just needed time

Wolfe wasn’t as convinced He clipped orders at me like I was one of his men and snapped at me when I dared to wander away from the Guard e took our lunch break My whole body felt wrecked with the tension between us, andin his eyes

When we crossed the border into Sabithia and beganfrom overuse Despite my resolve to put aside my worries over Wolfe until we returned to Silvera, all the questions kept creeping back,Haydyn I was still no closer to an anse caain Wolfe sidled his horse next to Midnight

"Lieutenant Chaeron, perhaps you can speak with Mr Dena again about accorinned at Wolfe’s pointed dis as Jac Dena careet hi to lean across the distance between Wolfe and I

"Rogan," Wolfe said so softly I had to look at hi to see pain and panic in his features I was surprised to see angry deter to get what he wanted I jerked back a little fro me… that means some time in the future you’ll marry someone else I’llanyone, Wolfe That’s what I was trying to explain earlier"

He nodded, as if he was actually listening to what I was telling hian I must, for the title And I want a faan?" His voice deepened "Because I will"

Noas the one panicking A deep, ragged cut splicing ht how painful it had been when I’d suspected he’d bedded Winter If he le day "Why are you doing this?!" I snapped "It’s unkind"

Wolfe searched ht I apologise I just wanted to prepare you for the future"

Snapping his stallion’s reins, Wolfe took off to ht, hyperventilating at the thought of Wolfe with soled to draw breath

Although the Dena’s were on their best behaviour, after their sons, Leon and Jac Jnr’s, performances last time, I pushed my food around ht I carried It didn’t help that Wolfe hadn’t taken his eyes off me the entire meal The Dena’s had been surprised and happy to have Wolfe at the table this ti for Chaeron’s easy coh time had passed for it to be polite to retire to my room