Chapter 196

• The lanterns illuminating the hallway threw long, dark shadows across it. Orla would have given a great deal to hide herself in those shadows, and so escape from the tension between them, but she couldn’t let his accusation stand.
• "I wasn’t flirting with him," she told him truthfully, defending herself.
• Of course you were. You were leading him on. Just like you—’ Arni stopped abruptly, but Orla knew what he had been about to say. He had been about to say just like she had led him on.