The Fated Series
Then, a second later, anger she didn’t bother to hide—anger that said, you let me lie for you, and also, you let yourself be smaller than you are, and also, beneath both, you’re here; thank the Goddess you’re here.
Tristan’s eyes flicked from her to me, and something in them said do better without getting in the way of what doing better would look like. He set down the stone he was holding and left a space at her side that had always been mine to stand in.
I crossed the yard.
“Crescent,” I said, loud enough for the men on the wall and the women at the mortar and the pup pretending not to listen behind the water cart. Heads turned. Hands paused. The courtyard’s breath hitched and waited.