Serin giggled, a strange, insane sound that made Keris recoil. “There is no denying that your father was a flawed and violent man, but your mother is the only woman he ever loved. It was not her defiance in going after Lara that drove him to kill her, but the things she said when he caught up to her. The revelation of her true feelings for His Grace, which were not at all what he’d believed. How swiftly love turns to hate in the face of betrayal. A feeling I suspect Zarrah Anaphora is deeply familiar with.”
