"The hardest thing about being wrong is watching the evidence pile up before you're ready to admit it."LUCAI'd been avoiding the Theon estate.That was deliberate. Three weeks of deliberate, conscious avoidance that I'd justified to myself in a dozen different ways — too busy, too much happening with the Serpents situation, too many things requiring my attention that weren't my sister and my best friend and the mess I'd made by putting them in the same house together.The real reason was simpler and less flattering.I wasn't ready to see them together and know what I knew now.Zyran had broken the one promise that had mattered. I'd built the entire arrangement around my certainty that he was incapable of wanting Myra the way he apparently wanted her, and I'd been wrong in a way that made every decision I'd made since look different in hindsight. I'd handed him the one person I'd spend my life protecting and told myself it was safe because he wouldn't feel anything.The man felt some
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