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« He glanced back at her. “Put your arms around my waist.” She ground her teeth and gripped the cantle tighter. “You promised to submit. Shall I tell my clanmen to continue boarding up your clan house?”

Her skin crawling, she pried her grip from the saddle and wrapped her arms around Darrien’s waist.

“Now lean your head against my shoulder.”

“You swore I wouldn’t have to submit my body.”

He turned so she could see his profile. “I am not asking you to my bed, Ilyenna. Just your head on my shoulder.”

She kept her head erect.

He nodded to one of his men. “Burn it.”

Tears smoldering down her cheeks, she laid her cheek against his shoulder.

He laughed dryly. “And so you have learned your first lesson.” He dug his heels into his gelding’s sides, taking her away from the family and people she loved. »

Spoiler(cliquez pour révéler) « The Balance requires a queen, Ursella. Choose now or she dies.”

Ilyenna felt the truth in the words. Her life ebbed away. The pain still tore at her, but it was as distant as a fading echo.

“Very well.”

Faintly, Ilyenna felt the last fairy’s lips on hers. Pain and time fled. She’d lived seventeen years, but she’d not lived at all. Her body, previously broken and bleeding, now pulsed with white light. Her wounds no longer existed. She suddenly realized she hadn’t breathed in many long minutes. She gasped, taking air into her lungs. »

« Not just a child, your child.” Metha’s voice came out half strangled. “You helped create it, so why am I the only one being treated like a whore?”

Darrien shrugged. “Because you’re a woman. »

"Strong as stone, supple as a sapling."