Bella's POVThree days passed in a blur of small careful movements.I went about things normally. Ate meals at the right times, moved through the packhouse at the right pace, gave Andrew nothing to look at that was interesting enough to hold his attention. He was watching me, I could feel it, that particular quality of being observed by someone who was waiting for you to do something they could use, and I moved through his watch like a woman who had nothing worth watching.At night I lay in bed and thought about Ethan's fingers and made myself stop and thought about Blackthron instead.Last night I had been moving through the corridor past Andrew's study when I heard Cordell's voice through the door… low and quick, the specific register of a report being delivered, something about patrol, something about the border, and then Andrew's voice underneath it, lower still, and I had slowed my steps and tried to catch the shape of what they were saying without stopping long enough to be noti
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