Chapter Seventy-one: Stay
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."
Later, as they lay side by side in his bed, it seemed that it was the Dark Lord's mind that would not stop whirling. Wraith lay with her back to him, half-asleep and too comfortable to fight it. Then she felt his hand gently stroke her back and she turned her head slightly to let him know she was still awake.
"You are right," he told her, his own voice slightly blurred as if he too were fighting sleep, "I was born to lead, to rule, and I have always relied on fear and cunning alike. That was m coin. But you, my Wraith," he said, movin