I bark out another laugh. “No, you definitely do not. You don’t even know the half of it.”
“I know that he’s suffering without you,” he offers.
“He is,” Gennady insists. “That’s why I’m here.”
“Oh, yeah?” I throw out sarcastically. “Is he expecting me to volunteer as a sacrifice for the third Trial?”
He winces. “Of course not, Arya. He would never.”
“But you know what it is, don’t you?”
“Yes,” Gennady says. “I know what the third Trial is.”
“He told me when we met that he’d never sell a woman. And look at what he’s trying to do now. So don’t say ‘he would never,’ Gennady. You can’t promise me that. He’s trampling all over the line he swore he’d never cross.”
“For you! And for Lukas!” Gennady lets out a long breath. “Our life isn’t always pretty, Arya. Dima has to make tough decisio
