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Guards burst in the roorurowls from Granit

Laake scooped her into his ar her to the crystal bath to speed her healing If those bruises don’t go away before bedti kill those males, whether they carry Zandian blood or not”

“Agreed,” Damon said He and Granit trailed behind Laake, apparently unwilling to let her out of their sight

“Sol,” she croaked weakly, thinking of her baby in his protective cradle Had he been hurt? Had the cradle been knocked around during the fight?

“I’ll get him, little flower,” Damon soothed “He’s fine”

In the circular crystal bath, light poured in through skylights, aiant Zandian crystals Laake sank into one of the beds, nesting her ass between his legs, pulling her back against his warm chest

Granit and Daht beside hers and sat down Dareedily attached himself to her nipple to nurse

“You left me vulnerable” She didn’t mean to blurt the accusation, but it flew out of herthem, but instead she spit out the one pain that wouldn’t be resolved by a crystal bath

All threelike, “I’ive us—” and “We didn’t know, Eslyn”

A sob erupted from her mouth, and then she cried like her three-cycle-old

Sol pulled his lips frohtened

HerNo, notDespite the way they talked over one another, she caught enough to understand

They were sorry

So her ex-mates had never been Not once

She sniffled back her purple-tinted tears, trying to recover “I et free I hoped—”