“She belongs in Alkandra.”
“Dispel that notion, Sherman. I don’t know what support I can get you within the city that doesn’t require my wallet.”
“What of your barons?”
He raised his brows. Okxxx I was made to do things I will never forgive myself for! This is an artificial heart. I had been brutal. “You can sleep there if you like.”
“So can you.”
“I just told you, I—” She looked sharply up at me, “No, Adrianna.”
I raised my brows. Have you not heard the stories that come out of Alkandra? There were quiet sounds of lust, soft sounds of slumber, and a few hushed sobs in the night, but my feet padding the cobblestones was the pervading cadence as I walked below the pale moon, the light of dawn threatening the eastern sky.
