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"They're incredible, Kynyr."
He leaned in and stole another kiss, his finger brushing her nipples.
Kady looked askance at his hands. "You're not getting my legs open until I
Call Courtship."
Kynyr flushed with guilt. "Call Courtship, Kady. Please."
"Soon, Kynyr. Soon."
"Then at least allow me to announce it, like an engagement. I want people to
know that you're mine."
"Not yet, Kynyr. Announce it after I Call Courtship?"
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"Whatever you want is fine with me." Kynyr sat down and watched Kady grinding
herbs for a while. "There's a house for sale ... it's an estate really. One
hundred acres of orchards.
The house is lovely. Nine bedrooms in the family section and eight in the
servants' wing. Maldwyn Softpaws designed it and it's one of his best. If you
like it, I'll buy it."
Kady stopped grinding and gazed at Kynyr as if re-
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assessing him. She thought she had fallen in love with a simple guardsmon, but
she was steadily discovering that there was far more to Kynyr than she
dreamed. "You have that kind of money?"
"I have a very large trust fund. My family is not poor farmers, although we do
farm."
"You have so many secrets, Kynyr. Some times I wonder if
I really know you."
"There are things I can't tell you, Kady. But on my word of honor, there's
nothing dark or evil in it. You do believe me?"
Kady leaned over and kissed him. "Yes, I believe you."
"Would you like to look at the house with me? It's close to the manor and it
would be a nice place to raise children."
"I'll be happy to look at it." Kady's head swam at the thought of living in
such a place. She had expected a small house that would quickly be filled with
children, something barely larger than a traditional longhouse. "But if it's
so big, I'll never be able to take care it."
"I'll purchase five or six nibari."
"Can we look at it tomorrow?"
A house ... a huge house with servants and orchards. Imagine that.
"I'll make the arrangements. You'll love it, Kady."
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* * * *
Baroucha looked more like an old white-haired toad than a lycan as she
prepared the foxglove extract that Robert Morcar would be picking up in a few
hours. She reached into the drawer, brought out the arcane poison that Malthus
had given her, and added the prescribed number of drops to Claw's medicine.
Malthus had assured her that it was undetectable.
She had fantasized for years about Claw's death. She would have poisoned him
long ago if she had not been afraid of getting caught.
The Redhands had killed her beloved Alistar Weems, the father of her only cub.
Tarrant Redhand and Todd Sinclair had staked Alistar nude over an anthill,
driven silver spikes through his wrists and ankles, and then put a silver
spike runed with terrible magics through his belly. Alistar died screaming.
She wondered sometimes what had become of her cub, which she had abandoned at
a monastery when she and
Cahira had fled the final battle of the Lycan Rebellion. Later she learned
that the difficult birth had left her womb too scarred to produce another.
Malthus had promised to kill all the Redhands, including the bastard son of
Tarrant Redhand and all of his offspring, including Kynyr.
Claw had sent for Sheradyn Kelly to be Merissa's personal physician during her
pregnancy. Baroucha hated Sheradyn almost as much as she hated the Redhands.
Once Sheradyn got there, Claw would be getting his medicine from either
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Atreius Ivanstern's apothecary or from Cahira. Baroucha would no longer be
able to get the poison into the chieftain.
That thought prompted her to pull the stopper out again and double the amount
of poison. "Die you old bastard."
The bell on her door rang, telling her someone had entered the shop. She hid
the poison in a drawer, grabbed the medicine for Claw, and walked out.
Robert Morcar stood waiting. "Hello, Baroucha. I'm here for Claw's medicine."
"You're early."
"Claw has run out of it." He raked a hand through his coarse close-clipped
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raven hair.
"I have it right here." She handed him the bottle. "This will help."
"What are you treating him for?"
"That's none of your business."
"I think it is. Everything that affects Claw, affects us all."
Baroucha got a sly look. "It's his heart. He's heading for a heart attack.
There's no way to prevent it."
Robert frowned, drawing deep lines across his forehead and pushing his
eyebrows together. "If he dies before
Merissa's babes are born ... I don't know who the elders would put in charge.
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