Hugh locked his teeth, sorting through his memories, going through Daniels’s facial expressions. He remembered the last one best, the time he had starved her, trying to force her to submit to her father. She had this look of resignation on her face as if she had given up on him ever getting it. She never saw him as a man. He was never in the running; he had known that from the start. He was either an extension of Roland or… It hit him like a ton of bricks. Daniels saw him as a sibling. She probably didn’t even realize it. On some level he had always understood it. It wasn’t the woman he had
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