(Isla)
I left the library before anyone could say anything else. Caius followed, and I knew he understood why I couldn't sit there discussing records anymore. My mother would be at Wraithbone before evening. Everything I wanted to tell her kept running through my mind.
We returned to our quarters, where Darius's chest waited. I checked the letter Orin had given me even though I knew exactly where I'd left it. The other letters were still inside the chest. Soon Lyrienne would see all of them.
"You're nervous," Caius said. He stood near me while I closed the chest again. "She'll be happy about the baby." He sounded certain.
"I know." I turned toward him. "I just keep thinking about telling her." Lyrienne had already lost so much time with me.
She hadn't watched me grow up or been there
