Chapter 15 CHAPTER 15

Later, as they prepared to rest, Elowen sat at the edge of the bed, unbraiding her hair. Darius leaned against the wall, watching—not possessively, not intensely. Just attentively.

“You can lie down,” she said.

“In a moment.”

She raised a brow. “Why?”

“I like watching you settle,” he said simply.

He...