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jaw ached.
She was almost to the first of the saddled
birds when a voice said behind her, “You
should have ignored him.”
Elide halted, finding Gavriel following.
“Pardon me?”
The Lion’s usually warm face was grave—
disapproving. “You might as well have kicked
a male already down.”
Elide hadn’t uttered a cross word to
Gavriel in all the time she’d known him, but
she said, “I don’t see how this is any of your
business.”
“I have never heard Lorcan apologize for
anything. Even when Maeve whipped him for
a mistake, he did not apologize to her.”
“And that means he earns my
forgiveness?”
“No. But you have to realize that he swore
the blood oath to Aelin for you. For no one