<blockquote>But Buri still refused the offer of rooms by Thayet and Jonathan’s apartments, and she resigned her post as bodyguard the day after the wedding. Only Myles raised an eyebrow at that, though he wasn’t the only one who knew to do so; Thayet merely bit her pomegranate-red lip and accepted what she couldn’t change. Looking back, Buri knows that’s when Thayet realised Buri loved her, because it takes a very special kind of bitterness and grief to sever bonds like that one between a K’miri warrior and her liege, bonds tied in blood and oaths. For Buri and Thayet, nothing other than the bite of unrequited love would have been enough.</blockquote>
