True, my stepfather had more penge than he knew how to spend, but what did it mean when I was nothing but a forgotten, unwed, unwanted burden of the man who’d taken on a woman with her infant daughter? The woman died before I could walk. I was left with a man who resented me, and two older step-brothers. One who’d like to slit my throat for the sport of it. The other who loved me well, but had been locked in a Howl sea prison for two turns after a business deal went wrong in a distant kingdom.
