Chapter 30

• —Tristan—
• Eleanor had offered herself to me, but she’d done it out of despair, out of love for her cousin. Not because she wanted to.
• She loved her cousin fiercely, wanted to protect him at any cost, like I would my brothers. I could respect that. I’d never admired a woman on her knees more than I did Ellie. She followed me quietly through the mansion. I could have asked anything of her, but that wasn’t how I wanted things to go. Far from it.