Then she pivoted back toward him. “Maeve said you and the others were in the North. That you’d been spotted by her spies there. Did you plant that deception for her, too?” He shook his head. “Lysandra has been thorough, it seems.” Aelin’s throat bobbed. “I believed her.” It sounded like a confession, somehow. So Rowan found himself saying, “I told you once that even if death separated us, I would rip apart every world until I found you.” He gave her a slash of a smile. “Did you really believe this would stop me?”
