I wish to stay with him. The words had been as bitter as the bile on her tongue when she’d said them. I wish to stay with him. She knew the Achaz Lord would wonder, especially after the things he’d said to her at his estate home. I wish to stay with him. But it hadn’t been a lie. Even if saying those words had tested her very being, staying with Theon was going to give her the best opportunities at uncovering secrets and figuring out who was lying to her, who was trying to use her.
