"You know, there was a time that I might have agreed with you, Sir Hugo," Ashlynn said in a tone that could only be called gentle when compared to her voice moments ago. "But I've learned since then the consequences of ignoring warning signs and being blindsided by the treachery of people you should have been able to trust."
She'd thought long and hard about why someone had betrayed her to Owain. Puzzled for hours and even days over what someone could have hoped to gain from it. Had one of her family's servants thought that it would be a path to obtaining the favor of a powerful lord? Were they just looking for a purse full of gold?
