Page 81 of A Touch of Flame
Maeve had refused. An abduction had followed. She had little memory of how much time had passed from the abduction to Laura’s murder. Maeve had been drugged and only brought out of the stupor when Laura was being tortured.
She rose to her feet. “I have to go.” What more was there to be said.
Besides, she had a poison to create.
As she turned to leave, Kiara caught her hand. “Maeve, you did the right thing. At the point you killed Laura, she couldn’t have been brought back. She’d already reached the tipping point. The poison had penetrated the bones and entered her blood stream. But it would still have taken hours of agony for her body to perish. Laura valued what you did. That’s why she came back to get you out of there.”
“Thank you for that.”
She gently pulled her hand from Kiara’s grasp.
“Maeve.” Kiara called after her. But her feet were already in motion.
She had to tell Braden the truth.
He had to know.
But before she told him, there was one more thing that needed to happen.
She went straight to her spellroom and got to work.
