"You know, don't you?"
The question, filled with months of pain and anguish, pierced Isabell's heart like the lance of a charging knight, tearing away her ability to hide from this question for even a moment longer.
Just the day before, she'd still entertained hopes of helping these sisters reconcile, but now, those hopes felt feeble and thin once she came to understand what Ashlynn had endured in the past half year. When she left Lothian City, she felt like she'd come to understand how the past six months had been a slow, ever-increasing torment for Jocelynn as Owain revealed more and more of his cruel, true self to her.
