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Оглавление“You’re crying.”
Blinking, Ediva lifted one small hand to her cheek.
Adrien sat down beside her. He took up her hand and held it quietly. “I have seen you on the parapet. You’d mentioned that you dreamed of running away.”
“I thought about escaping to the forest. I wondered how long I could survive there.”
“Why didn’t you try?”
She looked at him, her eyes softened by tears. “If I left, my husband would have turned his rage on my people.”
“Ganute is gone, Ediva.” Adrien squeezed her hand firmly. “He can’t hurt you anymore.”
“And you, Adrien? You’re a soldier, with violence in your blood.”
’Twas true. In the past, he’d justified his nature and work well enough and not given it another thought.
Until now, sitting beside Ediva with her questioning eyes and her pain so deep he feared no one could heal her.
At a loss, all he could do was lift her hand to his lips and kiss it.
