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“Your hesitation tells me you are thinking it over and therefore perhaps it is not as important as you think.”
That was enough for her to hear. “It’s more important than you’ll ever know.”
He quirked a brow. “Then let us talk and be done with it.”
“It cannot be discussed and dismissed easily.”
“If it is nonsense, it can be discarded easily enough.”
She told herself to be patient. He was eager to make love to her and annoyed that a discussion should delay their pleasure. She had to make him understand the importance of this matter to her.
“It’s about my home,” she said.
“You’ll love your new home,” he assured her with a smile, as if the matter were settled easily.
She shook her head. “Notyourhome;myhome.”
His smile disappeared. “Myhome isyourhome.”
“No, it isn’t. I have a home with my people—”
“You belong with my clan now.”
“I cannot simply desert my people,” she said.
“You are not deserting them. We’ll visit with them.”
“And what if I wish to remain there a while?” she asked.
“If such a time comes, I’ll see what can be arranged.”
A shiver ran through her, as if part of her was slipping away. She had come and gone as she pleased for so long that it was strange to think she would need to seek anyone’s permission to do as she pleased.
“Do not fret over it. We will see that you can visit often with your people and they can come to the keep when in need of healing.”
She shook her head. “That will not do. My door is always open to my people, and there are times I sense when I am needed.”
“They must understand that your marriage will take you away from them, to a new home. It is part of marriage. A wife makes a home with her husband. We will make a good home together.”
“I have no doubt of that. It is where that home will be that troubles me.”
“You know I serve the true king,” Trey said, as if no more discussion was necessary.
“So what you are saying is that there is no room for discussion.”
“What is it that truly bothers you? It can’t be this senseless chatter about where we will live. You know a wife goes with her husband. So what is it that has you stopping us from making love?”
“I am to abide by a rule that has me surrender my home without thought to what I lose?” she said, more adamantly than she had intended.
“You think you lose, not gain?” he said with a raised voice. “That is what you think of our marriage.”
Her voice rose as well. “Our marriage is not in question here.”
“Then tell me what is.”
His demanding tone irritated her. “You should know.”
He threw his hands up. “I do not have your abilities, and why don’t you just use them to answer whatever it is that frustrates you and be done with it.”
