Chapter 38 : Crom's Fool

~VANNIE~

The fight was over in minutes. The noise of the Inlanders watching from their homes became louder in victory, and Vannie came out of the space she'd been burrowed into.

The Keepers were gathering the opponents they'd kept alive and we're dragging them in the direction of the castle. Vannie supposed they were the leaders of the rebellion, and that they were going to the dungeons to get tortured.

Sin was waiting for her, still standing in the same place she'd seen him the last time. For a moment, they just took each other in, and then he spread his arms. There was nothing that could have stopped her from running into them. He kissed her head over and over again, setting her at ease enough for her to ask him, "You forgive me?"

He nodded. "And I trust you. Do you forgive me, too? For real this time?"

"I forgive you, Sinclair. And I trust you. Nothing was your fault. Nothing that happened between us was your fault."