Rafe
Rafe watched Luci walk into the dining room along with her mother and Thatcher. She had been collected from her room and escorted downstairs. He noticed the bruise on Luci’s arm; a full hand print, though there was deeper bruising where Orien’s fingertips had dug right into her skin.
Orien didn’t speak to Luci, looked at her hard and annoyed for maybe 30 seconds, but that was about it, he didn’t say anything about the bruising he’d left on her, and Rafe wondered if Orien was one to hit his own children?
He didn’t like it, and felt annoyance roll right off Jack as he laid eyes on that hand print; that went all the way round her arm. Rafe reminded Jack gently that she was not theirs to defend, to let it go.
Though it did surprise him a little that it still remained. That bruise sho
