Chapter 74

When night fell, servants conducted Reuben to the chamber next the princesses’ room, and here Corin was to leave him. But Corin would not go.

“If this is to be the last night you spend upon this Earth, I would not leave you alone,” he told the man who had captured his heart.

Reuben smiled, and stroked the face which had quickly become so dear to him. “But you cannot stay. Your grandmother’s cloak will cover only one man. Corin, my heart, I would take you with me if I could, but it is not to be.”

“Only one man, you say?” Corin questioned with a grin and a quirk of his eyebrow. “Then if I am not a man, I may stay. You were not the only one to whom my grandmother gave a gift.”