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Besides, he was ress here If she chose Adaet on with the pretense of living It was how he’d survived the first thirty-odd years What kind of fool had he becolas," she clipped

In silence they walked the cliff’s edge together, toward the forest

"I will be leaving for a time," he said finally as they entered the forest

Adrienne stiffened Was he serious? "Wh-where are you going?" And why did it disturb her so much?

He took a sharp, indrawn breath "Uster"

"What is Uster anyway?"

"One ofto Dalkeith Uster holds the villages of Duluth and Tanamorissey, and they are an inte’s ’s ’s whore

In the last weeks the heat of Adrienne’s anger had cooled, leaving a poignant regret Hawk had mostly avoided her, except for the occasional tiht with her for some reason She’d half expected hiht he had retreated carefully to his study by the sea There he’d stayed every night--so quiet, so beautiful, and so alone

"Hawk?" she began tentatively

"Yes?"

"What exactly did the king’s whore do?"