Chapter 95 Until I Stopped Thinking

• [KNOX]
• “You can’t go,” I force the words out, and I hate that I have to say them, hate that Xena stood here and asked me to command it like it would cost me nothing.
• She thinks I’d simply decide to let her walk away and be done with it. And why? To be rid of her husband? Have I not already fixed that by pulling her away from them, by separating her from that family and everything tied to it, and letting her live in individual, comfortable chambers? And to make Davina happy? The thought alone irritates me. Why would I burden myself with that—to please someone I don’t even tolerate, much less like?