Chapter 20 Nightmarish Things
- “It’d taken me decades of ending the fight. Of pretending I’d given up.”
- “Resisting him?” Disseus cut in. His voice harsh.
- She swallowed hard and he noticed that her body began to tremble in his grip. “Yes. For months I pretended I had not the merest hint of fight any longer. I let him take the husk he held captive and no longer clawed or bit or attacked him.”