throat instead. If they were truly courting, though … If they were together … He shot his thoughts dead. Didn’t you learn your lesson from the first witch who drew you in? He and Rune would never be together. If Rune was the Moth, this courtship—if he could even call it that—ended with Gideon arresting her and Rune going to the purge. And if she wasn’t the Moth, he’d step aside and hope his brother finally worked up the courage to go after what he wanted. And that was the way it should be.
