Chapter 210

She leaned behind him, standing on her knees and wrapping her arms around his neck, not minding how he flinched again. Under different circumstances, she would have been embarrassed and shy about her state of undress, but that was the last thing on her mind as she hugged his head to her chest.

“I’m sorry for what you had to go through. I wish there was a way to make your memories come back so that you would understand everything, so you would know why you were tortured and who tortured you,” she whispered, rubbing his tense shoulders.

Slowly, the tension went out of him, and he burrowed deeper into her. “I wish so too. It’s excruciating not to know.”

“And a lowborn would not know the word ‘excruciating’. Have you considered that you might be privileged?” she asked softly.

Callan thought about that for a minute. He swiveled his head to stare at her beautiful face as he pondered her words. “You might be right, but I really don’t think I’m privileged. I think I