No! Alimony was the least of his worries! It would not be testimony about what they had been doing behind the goat shed that Shahla would tell, but the biggest mistake he had ever made, not understanding that a mercenary's allegiance could never be bought with gold. Because of him, the raid he had orchestrated to lure the winged demon out of the village had turned into a full-blown raid. Eleven Assurians had died because the mercenaries had brought other mercenary friends, including Aturdokht's dead husband's tribe.
The raid was a mistake. It hadn't been supposed to turn out that way…
"The child cannot be mine," Jamin felt as though he might be sick. "If she was pregnant, she would have told me."
"She did not tell her own best friend," Chief Kiyan said. "Her parents realized several day
