Heather McCollum

Cain began to walk again, Joshua’s words plucking at his confidence that Ella would stay even with a new foal to tie her to Girnigoe. Perhaps if he continued gifting animals to her, she would have so many that she couldn’t return without assistance, assistance that he would give only after she married him and peacefully forfeited her family’s castle and lands

Ella preferred to save them from attending that particular meeting, at least until they were old and withered.

And she loved me. I tried to protect her from Alec as much as I could without making him suspicious, but that became harder once she…became with child. My child.”