Chapter 86

Daevishk watched Mira fuss over his brother s submissive, braiding her hair in the way he had taught her and offering a cold pack for her bruised cheek. From the looks that Mira kept casting him over her shoulder, she expected him to be as outraged by his brother s treatment of the female as she was. Mira had been terrified when they had been woken by the woman s screams two nights before, but Daevishk had soothed her back to sleep with reassurances that he knew his brother and Nadyr would not harm her unnecessarily. He still believed that, but he also knew that the situation with Amelia was affecting Nadyr adversely. Of anyone, he understood the lengths a male could go to, and the sacrifices he would make to morals and beliefs, in order to survive, and to protect his family. The male that was left after such niceties were stripped away, was the male that he was. Daevishk had no illusions about the male that he was, and he suspected that neither would Nadyr by the time this was