ELRETH
"But all my female friends have done it too!" she protested. "None of them are walking around, soul-sore because they—"
"Are you certain?" her mother asked with a pointed look.
Elreth shut her mouth.
Gwyn.
Aaryn had mated her a year earlier. One time. After they'd both drunk too much at a feast. And Aaryn had regretted it the next day. Mainly because Gwyn had become… fixated on him.
Elreth squirmed. She'd thought Gwyn's attachment to Aaryn was an overreaction to something small. It had put something of a wall up in their relationship because she'd communicated early on to Gwyn that she thought the female needed to just give up and move on. She'd said it as a friend, but Gwyn had been careful around her ever since.
And Aaryn had to be careful with Gwyn.
