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would warm me so well if I got in.”
He wanted to, though. Gods, he wanted to
leap in. But he made himself add, “This lake
is ancient. You should get out.” Before
something came creeping along.
She did no such thing, her arms continuing
their sweeping circles in the water. Aelin only
stared at him again in that grave, cautious
way. “I didn’t break,” she said quietly. His
heart cracked at the words. “I didn’t tell them
anything.”
She didn’t say it for praise, to boast. But
rather to tell him, her consort, of where they
stood in this war. What their enemies might
know.
“I knew you wouldn’t,” he managed to say.
“She ... she tried to convince me that this
was the bad dream. When Cairn was done
with me, or during it, I don’t know, she’d try
to worm her way into my mind.” She glanced