If he hadn’t come back, she would be free of him, of the villain who had her arcanely chained to his side, so how had it come to this? To getting absolutely everything she needed—the Brineberth soldiers run out of her home, her pending wedding struck from possibility, seeds from a wild liathau to repopulate the orchard—and feeling as though none of it mattered if she didn’t have what she wanted. If she didn’t have him.
