After the meal, the journey continued, and I remained in the carriage.
They had utterly eaten it all up and seemed to like it—more than six of them she had seen licking their fingers.
Some of them had even argued over the food and its share.
Xaden had not eaten it.
When she turned to the carriage window, she saw Erik riding his horse beside her.
He had saved her life.
If not for him, what would Xaden have done to her again?
This time worse, in front of his men.
Her body shivered, and she pushed the thought away.
She took some of her medicine and then rested for a bit.
"Halt," Xaden said.
She froze all the horses, and the carriage itself stopped.
There was silence.
The silence continued for a few minutes, and then I heard footsteps and someone coming down from a horse.
There was a slicing sound as if something had been caught, and then something fell with a loud thud.
