Chapter 12
Beau’s mind raced.
The sun outside their silked room in the palace now grew brighter.
Sleep hadn’t silenced the screams in his head that he was supposed to die. In the past few months, his aunt and uncle had died, he’d been arrested and sent to prison for crimes he hadn’t committed, and his mother had cancer all while the entire family was under tremendous stress. House arrest seemed more humane, though but didn’t line up with how he imagined this ended. Plus the determination on Sarah’s face, like she’d pleaded for her own life really… he couldn’t deny her.
She’d argued for the right thing.
Returning to Hoskell was a priority now only for the election.
The naked woman beside him was warm and inviting and the light sprinkling of freckles on her back he’d never noticed befo
