Valor of the Healer
“A week ago Shaymis Enverly wouldn’t have acknowledged such weakness. But a week ago assassins hadn’t attacked him in his own church. Though the physician who’d tended the Hawks had treated him with equal competence, his injuries still ached. He’d allowed himself only a minimal dose of laudanum. Drugged rest wasn’t an option, not when the work over which he’d labored for so long was so close to fruition. And not when he had one more trial to face in the most grueling morning he’d suffered in yea...rs—telling Holvirr Kilmerredes why his slave, the very slave on whom that life’s work depended, was gone.
The very thought exhausted him. With the town watch on high alert, he didn’t dare take advantage of the blood he’d drawn from the girl, despite the promise of its secrets. So he’d compromised with the physician, retreating to his cottage behind the church, but to his parlor hearth rather than his bed. There he laid a fire despite the clement summer, for his home was shaded and cool.MoreLess
The very thought exhausted him. With the town watch on high alert, he didn’t dare take advantage of the blood he’d drawn from the girl, despite the promise of its secrets. So he’d compromised with the physician, retreating to his cottage behind the church, but to his parlor hearth rather than his bed. There he laid a fire despite the clement summer, for his home was shaded and cool.MoreLess
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