"Every man and woman in your household is here because they chose to be," Devlin reminded Jocelynn. "If there's danger coming, we're not going to leave you to face it alone. We've already set sail, my Lady. Once we're on the sea, the whole crew fights together or we all go down with the ship."
"You don't understand," Jocelynn said, and the frustration in her voice cracked against the wine like a wave against a hull. Everyone who had come out here with her had thought they were coming to support her and Ashlynn together. They didn't know that her sister was already dead when they left Blackwell, or that it had been her fault, almost as much as it had been Owain's fault for beating Ashlynn to death.
