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Trey shook his head. “Are you forever in my thoughts?”
“Perhaps it is you who is in my head, for I hear only the most persistent ones.”
“I have no such powers like yours.”
“Not so. I believe many people have the ability; they simply do not pay heed to it.”
He was about to disagree, but her words stopped him.
“That matters not right now. My concern is that something troubles you, and I wish to help ease your burden.”
Leora was not as thoughtful as Bliss.
The unexpected thought stunned him, for he had always assumed that any woman would pale in comparison to Leora. And he suddenly realized that simply was not so. It seemed that his concerns were Bliss’s concerns. She not only worried along with him, she offered to help ease his worries.
Leora had often told him that he could talk with her about anything, even his missions, if he wished. She would not betray his trust, but he never did. He would never take the chance of putting the true king in harm’s way. And she had never realized when his thoughts troubled him though she had been quick to share whatever troubled her, and frequently.
This time spent with Bliss had him seeing Leora differently. Not that it changed his love for her, but it made him see that perhaps she wasn’t the perfect woman he had thought her to be.
He realized then that Bliss could be hearing his thoughts, but she had said that it was the most persistent ones she heard, and this thought was new. It worried him that his thoughts were so available to her.
“I hear nothing at the moment if that is what concerns you,” she said.
And it concerned him even more that she should say that as he thought it. She had been nothing but honest with him, and so it was his decision whether to trust her word or not.
He didn’t hesitate; he trusted her. “I do have a concern.”
“Tell me.”
Again he didn’t hesitate. “Do you know the identity of the true king?”
She didn’t hesitate as well. “I do.”
Trey felt a burden descend on him like never before.
“You worry that if I should be captured I would reveal his identity, leaving him vulnerable,” she said.
Damn, if she didn’t know his very thought.
Bliss stopped and stood in front of him. “I have known the true king’s identity for some time. I have never spoken of it to a soul, and I have no intention of ever revealing it—under any circumstances.”
“Torture can reveal truths as well as lies,” Trey said.
She smiled. “I am a seer and therefore what I say is taken as my word.”
Trey chuckled. “Are you telling me you would lie?”
“I would do what I must to protect the true king, for I know he will keep my people safe.”
Trey caught her chin with his fingers. “It is a heavy burden you carry.”
“You carry it as well.”
He shook his head. “It is different.”
“Why?”
He stared at her a moment as if the answer was obvious. He was a man who could defend himself; she was a woman who ... knew more than most.
