“I know what you want to say,” Conor said, and Kel was surprised by the savagery in his voice. It was a savagery directed not at Kel, but at Conor himself. “Tell Anjelica you can’t marry her. Figure out some other way Castellane can pay its debt to Sarthe and protect itself at the same time. Do not torture yourself. But you know there is no other way.” “I would not have used the word torture,” Kel said in a low voice. “But it means something to me that you did.”
