Eve thinks I’m trying to kill her. The idea bothers me. It makes sense. After all, she watched me kill a man before her very eyes. But the idea that she believes I would go to the trouble of extending an olive branch in the form of marriage only to let her explode, that she thinks so little of me that I would kill her after offering peace, it is insulting. And worse than that, I still want to comfort her. I want to ease the worry lines across her forehead and massage the tension from her shoulders. She is insulting my character and disobeying my orders, and I still want to kiss the frown from
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