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Daemon slipped an arm around her waist “Did you tell him the truth?”
She gave hi else?”
“To spare hie”
The air around them chilled “A smart man wouldn’t call a Healer a liar,” she said too softly
“A smart man also knows that Healers sometimes lie” He looked in her eyes and waited
“Healers soed “But not this ti that wasn’t his fault and wasn’t anything he could have changed is an indulgence his wife and son can’t afford Neither can he If you can’t help him see that, his father will”
Interesting Especially since she sounded absolutely sure of that
Nurian walked out of the eyrie, looking tired “I have a healing brew si on the stove Needs another ten minutes”
“I can finish it,” Jaenelle said
“I took the linens,” Nurian said, lowering her voice “Marian asked if I could get them cleansed, but”
Jaenelle shook her head “A Black Widow ht be able to cleanse the psychic residue out of the cloth enough to be acceptable to Marian, but no one is going to be able to cleanse those linens enough for Lucivar to tolerate We’ll get them replaced”
“I thought that would be the way of it” Nurian paused “Should I wake Jillian and send her to the Keep to watch Daemonar?”
“Let her sleep It would be better to have her help later in the et some rest too We’ll be here to look after them”
“All right I’ll be back in the ”
Spreading her wings, Nurian flew to the eyrie she shared with her younger sister
“I’d better keep an eye on that brew” Jaenelle gave Daemon a quick kiss and walked into the eyrie
He was still standing outside an hour later when Surreal showed up
“I heard, more or less,” she said as she climbed the last stair and joined him in the courtyard “So who needs to be babied and who needs to be bullied?”
“What did you hear?”
“Soht Dae with Uncle Saetan” Surreal hooked her hair behind one ear “And you’re in trouble, by the way Mostly forgiven because it was clear you had left your brains so web and couldn’t be relied on right now”
He stiffened “I beg your pardon?”
“Apparently there are rules when there is a family crisis You broke the rules”
“I wasn’t aware of any,” he said coldly
“Uh-huh Uncle Saetan is, and after you arrived here, he contacted Beale, and Beale then informed Mrs Beale of where you were and why Rainier is on his way, but he has to wait for the first round of food Mrs Beale has prepared Chaosti is also on his way, but he’ll stop at the Hall for whatever wasn’t ready when Rainier headed out”
Hell’s fire Was any of that supposed to make sense? “Surreal” “Don’t snarl ather there was a fa her to prepare food so none of us needed to think about that”