Chapter 102

Neither man deserves to die. Harper had watched Amelia s face carefully as she said it, wondering if the subversive hint would reach its mark, but Amelia, as was Amelia s way, gave her nothing back. If the only way out of a Bond was one of the Bonded couple dying, then Harper needed to save Nadyr. She was waiting, she told herself, biding her time until the other woman gave birth, because Harper did not want two deaths on her conscious. But waiting was hard when the means to kill Amelia sat in her pocket, a tiny vial of poison which the submissive male that she had purchased it from had assured her would be deadly and undetectable. To keep Amelia close enough to poison, Harper worked hard at cultivating a friendship with her. She took the other woman out veiled through the court every morning for the next two weeks, and together they admired the architecture and art, the clothing and excesses of the dominants from within the shield of their veils and the hidden screened