Apologies if it’s already discussed but I am nearly 40 pages behind.
Malice keeps repeating over and over Ioan has said he doesn’t want the girls.
What I think he has said is along the lines of “I don’t want to take the girls away from you” or “I won’t take the girls” in an effort to reassure her bollocking bitchness Malice.
Even after all he has been through at her hands, he was still trying to be fair, trying to appease her, trying not to cause fear.
That is what I think was said.
She is once again turning his kindness against him by twisting the meaning of what was said.
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