Chapter 24: Stay Together

The gates of the Redmoor packhouse closed on them at dawn.

I stood in the yard with Dorian beside me and watched the guards lock the great door from the outside.

The two of them stood in the hall behind the glass of the window, a yard apart.

Garrick's hand was wrapped in cloth.

Verity's hair had come loose, and she did not seem to notice.

I walked up to the window and laid my palm flat on the glass.

"There's wood in the stable," I said. "There's flour and salt in the cellar, and a well in the yard. I'll send a cart on the first of every month."

Neither of them answered.

"You'll see each other every day. You'll sit at the same table. You'll walk the same halls."

"Morwenna," Garrick said through the pane. His voice was hoarse. "Please."

"I'm not releasing you."

"We'll die in here."

"You won't. You'll be alive for a very long time." I smiled at him. "I hold the bond, Garrick. I'm holding it for good."

Verity lifted her head.

Her eyes met mine through the glass, and for the first time I saw nothing in them but exhaustion.

She had stopped hoping, I realised.

It was worse than hate.

I turned my back and walked down the steps.

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