“I told him I didn’t want to go back.” Her cheeks turned red and she looked down, softly adding, “Ever.” I had lived through centuries of violence, and no other creature had come quite so close to stopping my heart. And at the thought that they’d tried to take her away from me . . . I growled as I stood. “No man will ever touch you again, Lisane. That’s the only promise I can give you.”
