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“And every damn day since, she made herself step forward and take the tray from him. Though it had taken at least a week before she’d been able to meet his eyes while doing it.
The smile he had given her... it put a little flip in her belly.”

it took days of his courting until she’s comfortable enough to look into his eyes 💗

“I made you something to eat, though I am not nearly as skilled with the preparation of recipes as you seem to be with needle and thread.”

🤣 burnt oat pancakes?

“As did making the dress. She worked on it all night so she might wear it today.”

my shayla 🥹 she’s so cute

“Hinting at a blush, Morgaine smoothed her skirt. “My mother taught me to sew, to weave, and to dye fabric.”

🥹 my shaylaaa

“That place where she forgot her name, her inhibitions, where she felt free in the loss of who she was because there was nothing to mourn if she was nothing at all.”
🫂

“Afraid, she sat a hip to the floor, pulled her knees under her chin, and made herself as small as possible. She even apologized. “I’ve been told they won’t scar. You won’t have to look at them forever.”

💔😞

“She was not even sure of who she was in that moment.”

me too girl me too 🤣

“Your genetics were run through our database to assure that none who offered for you were a blood relation.”
“During this process, your patriarch was also discovered.”
“The Alpha in question was executed this morning.”

😦

“No sudden rampage came with cold acceptance, no quickly flung out hand to claw his face. Morgaine only grew silent and still, staring forward and seeing nothing.”

my shayla 😔💔😭

“If Morgaine were taken, who would know how to find toxic hicklim berries to make the lovely green-dyed fabric her mother was famed for sewing? How would her mother survive alone?
Morgaine would chew her own arm off if it meant keeping the woman safe.
Boiling fever and excruciating pain? Morgaine deserved them for keeping her secrets. The good woman snoring in the corner did not.” 🥹