"I have no reason, Rowan. And I know what I did was wrong. An apology would not suffice. I should have taken you with me." he knew it was impossible. She had been taken to the royal palace. Richard must have thought that he could catch his father though his mother.
It must have been hard for her to run away from there.
"But you could have come for me. You could have sent a letter or… I do not know anything." his body shook hard and he convulsed with emotions he could not even understand.
"You were living with Scarlet. That woman… I am sorry Rowan. You are right, I could have sent a letter. I knew all the secret paths joining the palace. I could have come for you. I could have killed all the spies around you. But.. I was not in good health. When I left the palace that day, I had lost a lot of blood.
