Chapter 23 Unsteady Oaths

• Davina lies awake beneath the thin guest blanket, staring at the plain ceiling, fury simmering quietly under her skin. Not a whisper of sleep finds her, not after what Xena said.
• He hasn’t waited for you as faithfully as you imagine.
• The words replay, again and again, like a thorn she can’t pull out. She hates the doubt they planted. She hates that it came from Xena, of all people. And she hates most of all that a small, ridiculous part of her believed it.