Chapter 6 — The First Promise

Later, when the house had gone quiet and his men were posted at the doors, Caspian cleaned the shallow cut on her back himself, without calling a single member of the staff to help.

He asked her permission before he touched her.

He left the study door open the whole time, so that she would never be shut in a room with anyone again without knowing she could leave it.

And he made her a promise, plainly, the way a man makes a promise he means to be held to: that no doctor chosen by her father would ever set foot near her as long as she was his wife.

Cosima did not believe him.