He knew it was likely Shahrzad had sent her family away or that they had fled voluntarily, leaving behind a store of unanswered questions. And he found the timing too coincidental for it to be unrelated to their marriage. If he could find her family, perhaps he could obtain the answers he so desired. But would he want these answers once they were within his grasp? So many issues already plagued him. He could ask her. Ask her where she had sent her family. What she was hiding from him. Why she insisted on tormenting him. But the thought that she might lie to him—that those eyes, with their
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