Chapter 50

I helped Tulisa to her feet. She clung to me closely. I can't say I am proud to be enjoying her warm and soft body in her time of grief, but neither can I say I regretted it. 

"I'm a mess." She complained. "Nothing goes right around me."

"These are difficult times.

"My partner died during the attack. I am childless, he… he was unable to give me child, or so a passing Druid told us."

I stared blankly at her trying to think of the right thing to say to her sudden moment of oversharing. What is it with terrible husbands wanting children around here? 

She kept on speaking, "But he blamed me anyway and that stupid harlot Jesimi spread rumours I was cursed. She said that the druid had cured him, but left me to suffer for my crimes against the wedding bond. They let her marry him and he raised her children as his own. But he died during the attack."

I blinked dumbly.

"But maybe I am cursed to bring harm to the men I love."