She stares at me after which yawns.

“You’re a fucking hypocrite,” she says, her mouth roaring mid-yawn.

“Nevertheless it’s morning,” I say. “And I’ve bought loads to do down on the store. I’m simply getting my day began.”

She shakes her head, presumably seeing by my lie.

I hope she received’t probe, asking for the data I’m retaining from her and myself. Yesterday on the store, I realized one thing that ought to elate me however doesn’t.

“That’s a load of shit,” she replies. “You don’t have to do early mornings anymore. You’ve bought me now.”

I chuckle, amused at how she insists on maintaining this ruse even whereas we’re collectively.

She has grow to be extremely useful as a enterprise companion, to say nothing of the intercourse. Nevertheless it’s all only a position she’s enjoying—an act she’s placing on. This will’t go on for for much longer.

“Hanna, we’re alone. The servants aren’t awake. You don’t must hassle with that.”

At this, she brings herself up from mattress, standing beside me. I can vaguely see her reflection within the window.

“You assume I’m not being real?” she asks. “In the event you’re that fearful about it, we’ll face it collectively. Pretend marriage or not.”

I notice, with a begin, that I wish to knock her again right down to the mattress and take her, and I wonder if they’re my actual emotions or one thing I manufactured for the convenience and comfort of this marriage. It’s so laborious to know what’s an act anymore.

How a lot of it is a lie?

“What aren’t you telling me?” Hanna asks, scrunching up her nostril.

She reaches as much as seize my face, turning it towards her personal. I really feel my eyes shifting away from hers, the temptation to lie reaching crucial ranges.

However I’m not going to lie. I don’t know why it bothers me a lot, simply admitting it to myself.

Regardless that it should most likely trigger our separation, I’ve to inform her what I found.

“I’ve a spy on New Solas,” I say. “I’ve been retaining eyes on the town whereas we’ve been away, in anticipation of our mutual mission.”

“Vrask,” she replies, interrupting me earlier than I can end.

Her eyes are nonetheless dim and unaware. I must be recounting the climate forecast to her, or explaining my tradition.

I shake my head.

“Not Vrask, no. Any individual else. A trusted confidante.”

She research me, as if in some way distrustful of my phrases, however too drained and unmotivated to problem me.

“Anyway, my supply has pinpointed Zathex’s precise location,” I proceed. “For some time, we had been blind, however Zathex made a dumb mistake, and it’s going to value him.”

I really feel that that is the place I ought to smile. In any case, that is alleged to be excellent news. I can lastly fuck over the asshole that ruined me, and she will be able to discover her revenge for all of the methods he abused her.

And I’m glad for her. She’s lastly getting the whole lot she requested for… lastly discovering peace figuring out that quickly, her would-be captor will probably be useless.

So I smile. As a result of I must be smiling for each of us. However in some way, it doesn’t really feel real.

“It’s lastly going to be over, Hanna,” I say. “We’re going to place an finish to that bastard. Nevertheless you wish to finish it, he’s inside my grasp.”

And I permit myself to really feel what I do know I must be feeling for the time being.

Now that now we have him cornered, there’s nowhere he can run. I’m decided to convey an finish to him, solidifying as soon as and for all the facility of my phrases, and the legitimacy of my work. I’m by no means going to must cope with hardship like what he put me by ever once more.

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