Sara and the Conqueror
"You act like a man who is desperate for a woman to look at him the way she looked at the Conqueror tonight. It doesn't make sense to keep her this close, to suffer her insults, and to protect her from Yvonne's wrath, until you look at it through the lens of love. It's the only thing that explains why you haven't just killed her and ended the threat once and for all."
There was a long, heavy silence. I heard the sound of a decanter hitting a glass, the clink of ice against crystal.
"A little bit," Tristan finally whispered. The words were so quiet, so broken, that I almost missed them. "I think... I’m a little bit in love with her. And it’s killing me, Harlan. Every time she looks at me with