Chosen .

“I'm gonna tell you what I'm feeling," he said, low, "and I'm gonna ask you to hear me out the way I just heard you. I'm angry you sat on it. Not the way you think. I'm not angry you made a call. I'm angry that for a whole week you were walking around this house carrying that in your chest and I didn't know. You let me sleep next to you. You let me have you and I didn't know my own woman was holding a knife somebody threw at her. That's what I'm angry about. Not the call. The carrying it alone.”
― Chosen ., Royal’s Oath

“You carry things alone all the time. You've been doing it since I've known you. You didn't tell me about Avery Boone until three days after you had the name. You handled a hundred things our first year I didn't find out about till they were done. I learned how to do that from watching you, Oath. So you don't get to be mad at me for being the woman you created.”
― Chosen ., Royal’s Oath