He might have liked to say goodbye to his mother, in the hopes that she would be at least a little bit sad to see him gone, but he didn't trust that she wouldn't immediately betray him. It wasn't worth the risk. There was no one else. A chambermaid had once been kind to him for a few weeks, sharing sweets with him and saving him a place at the servants' table, until she realized that he wanted only a friend, and had no interest in taking a wife.
After that, she'd been cold and cruel as the rest of them. More so, sometimes.
Adam rested his knee against Ronan's across the coach, desperate for reassurance. Ronan had always been the center of his world, and now he was the only thing in Adam's world. If anything happened to Ronan, Adam would have nowhere to go, and nothing to protect him.
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He might have liked to say goodbye to his mother, in the hopes that she would be at least a little bit sad to see him gone, but he didn't trust that she wouldn't immediately betray him. It wasn't worth the risk. There was no one else. A chambermaid had once been kind to him for a few weeks, sharing sweets with him and saving him a place at the servants' table, until she realized that he wanted only a friend, and had no interest in taking a wife.
After that, she'd been cold and cruel as the rest of them. More so, sometimes.
Adam rested his knee against Ronan's across the coach, desperate for reassurance. Ronan had always been the center of his world, and now he was the only thing in Adam's world. If anything happened to Ronan, Adam would have nowhere to go, and nothing to protect him.