Cast Love Aside
“At first she sat on the side of the bed, staring at the wall with unseeing eyes, too grief-stricken even for tears and too numb to accept that her worst fears for her brother had been confirmed by the one person who knew Gilbert's fate for certain.
Guilt bedeviled her. If she had stayed at Manoir Sainte Inge instead of running off with Magnus and his friends, if she had thought to pry open the lock and search Erland's private room while he was gone from the manor and thereby discovered evidence... of where he was hiding Gilbert, if she had then ventured into the tower, she might have found Gilbert in time to save him. If only she hadn't been fooled by Erland's cruel trickery.
It wasn't long before her numbness began to recede and her unhappy thoughts coalesced into a need for action.
With Gilbert dead, her heart and mind together proclaimed one last duty that she owed to him. No one, not Royce, and not Magnus, was going to prevent her from performing it.
Having made her decision she touched the pouch she kept fastened to her belt.MoreLess
Guilt bedeviled her. If she had stayed at Manoir Sainte Inge instead of running off with Magnus and his friends, if she had thought to pry open the lock and search Erland's private room while he was gone from the manor and thereby discovered evidence... of where he was hiding Gilbert, if she had then ventured into the tower, she might have found Gilbert in time to save him. If only she hadn't been fooled by Erland's cruel trickery.
It wasn't long before her numbness began to recede and her unhappy thoughts coalesced into a need for action.
With Gilbert dead, her heart and mind together proclaimed one last duty that she owed to him. No one, not Royce, and not Magnus, was going to prevent her from performing it.
Having made her decision she touched the pouch she kept fastened to her belt.MoreLess
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