Chapter 318. His Threat Never Really Went Away

“I told her that men like him don’t ‘calm down.’ That the court would keep making excuses so they could keep their heads and that her existence outside his control would be a wound that he would never let heal.”

“What a romantic tosser...” Maeve observed dryly.

“I gave her two options. We make them all disappear in that house, cut all ties, and hope that them blending into a human village is enough, or we split the targets. She and the toddler go to ground in the house with a protection detail provided by the Enclave and Greyson comes with me. He would grow to become a problem that the king couldn’t predict, he would be educated, trained and most importantly, he would be a moving target. If the king wanted to end their line by making them appear weak, then we’d deny him that opportunity.”

Ann’s eyes softened very slightly.

“And she chose the second.”

“She did,” Bartholomew said. “Not easily. She loved that boy like air itself. She argued that she could