1564024802

A flicker of shame went through Manon at
the relief that flooded her. To avoid that
confrontation, to avoid begging for
forgiveness, as she should have done.
Dorian set down his spoon. Such a
graceful, casual gesture, considering how he’d
felled that wyvern. “How is it that the
Crochan line survived? Legend says they were
wiped out.”
Another sad smile. “You can thank my
mother for that. Rhiannon Crochan’s youngest
daughter gave birth during the siege on the
Witch-City. With our armies felled and only
the city walls to hold back the Ironteeth
legions, and with so many of her children and
grandchildren slaughtered and her mate
spiked to the city walls, Rhiannon had the
heralds announce that it had been a stillbirth.
So the Ironteeth would never know that one
Crochan might yet live. That same night, just