Chapter 32

Ronan's POV

Maeve sent me to the adjoining room while she examined Elara. Tamsin came with me. I sat because my side wouldn't let me stand, and because Tamsin was plainly prepared to make me sit if I tried to return.

“Tell me what happened from the moment you touched her,” she said.

She didn't say which woman. I told her about my hand around Elara's throat, the way my fingers had resisted me, and Mara pulling at my wrist. I told her I had nearly reached for Maeve afterward. Tamsin wrote it down on the back of an unused dispatch.

“You can take my weapons,” I said.

“I already did.” She set my sheathed knife on the shelf behind her. “I need you to stay where Maeve can see the seal. If it i