Second wife, Second chance
She leaned forward, ignoring the ache in her knees, and pushed aside a screen of thin branches.
In the clearing ahead, moonlight pooled on a patch of grass that looked almost silver. Rowan stood there with his coat loosened, his hair unbound, the usual order in him undone by intimacy. His face was turned toward the person in front of him, and the sight of his expression - open, hungry, tender - hit Elowen harder than any rumor ever could. He had never looked at Elowen like that. Not in the woods. Not in private.