Ashlynn deliberately kept the meal she shared with Loman Lothian light, not only because there would be a much more substantial feast to follow in the evening, but because it gave her an excuse to keep her reunion with her brother-in-law brief.
She'd expected the encounter to be tense, but even she had underestimated how many of the wounds in her heart Loman would expose, or how much his unconscious habits and unthinking actions would remind her of his brother, Owain.
