Talwyn placed her hands over Ashtine’s, feeling the babes move beneath their fingers. “They will be protected more than any others.” “If Briar and I are not…” And Talwyn knew. She knew what the princess was asking her. Because they had both grown up without mothers and fathers. But they had grown up with each other. The gods knew she’d likely make a shit mother, but if Briar and Ashtine could not be there, those babes would never feel abandoned. Not for a single moment of their lives. “They will know love, Ashtine,” Talwyn said. “The unconditional kind. The kind you showed me. They will be
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Godsdamnit, Melissa. This kind of foreshadowing gives me heart palpitations.
