She didn't want to leave him. She let out a shuddering breath, she didn't want to leave him.
Elizabeth's vision blurred for a moment, that hadn't always been the case. She was sure of that. There had been times when the thought of getting away from Charles had been the only thing she could think about. Until she had been sent to Prague, to live alone, alone in a house full of people that she could not allow herself to think of as people, for two months. Charles was away for two months, they were hundreds of miles away from her and she could have left at any time during those two months.
"No," she breathed out, what she heard in her voice made her squeeze her eyes shut and shake her head.
"No," she repeated, this time it was firmer than the first no. It didn't mean anything, not
