Chapter 173

• Rhode had been so wrong in not trusting him, in doubting his love, so painfully unknowing of her own brother... But Kassandra understood him finally. She knew what a complex and honorable man her husband was.
• And knowing Darian meant loving Darian, loving his generous heart, his sense of duty, even his rigidly autocratic dictates.
• Why else had she risked everything she had always been scared of this past month? How else would she have thrown herself into this madness with such relish? "After all these years, I didn’t think the reasons for Rhode’s death mattered anymore. Not when I was finally able...