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His brothers burst out laughing and Éibhear walked close to the table Fearghus and Briec sat at He raised his fists and slaainst the hundred-year-old, thick wood table It broke into three distinct pieces and crumpled to the floor

His brothers looked over theyou tell Annwyl you broke the war room table"

Izzy put her ar?"

"Everything!"

Izzy closed her eyes so that her sister didn’t see her cross them in exasperation Gods, had she been this dramatic when she was sixteen? Izzy doubted it Her life had been so serious up to that point, how could she be draht after her birth, Izzy hadn’t ain until she was sixteen In the years before thatIzzy had traveled the countryside with three soldiers she called her Protectors Men who’d left their lives and faoddess Arzhela and her followers

For years those followers had hidden the fact that they’d lost Izzy so that they could keep control of Talaith It had worked too, until Briec the Mighty cahter He’d fallen in love with Talaith, ons called it, Briec had Clai, Briec had treated Izzy as his own daughter, without question, without doubt To a girl who’d never known her birth father, Briec’s unconditional love had ’ down to soeable?" Izzy asked

Rhi dropped her head, the back of her hands wiping her cheeks and eyes "What if I’d killed her?" she whispered

"Killed who?"

"Talwyn"

"With that hard head she has?"

Rhi pushed Izzy’s ar her "I’, Izzy"

She really wasn’t Rhi was truly distraught, fingers twisted into knots, her entire body shaking

"But you didn’t kill Talwyn I saw her, luv She’s fine"

"But I could have"

"And I could have killed many over the years, but I haven’t Mostly"