Reborn to Flee My Fiance's Obsession (Fiona and Soren) novel Chapter 324

Fiona arrived just in time to hear that line. Before he could go saying more, she cut in, "What kind of tea would Lord Soren like?"

"Whatever Ms. Fiona wants me to drink, I'll drink." Soren caught the meaning and did not bring it up again.

Fiona paused to think for a moment, then said, "My mother just got some new tea leaves in her room. Would Lord Soren like to come with me to the second branch?"

There was no need to keep the matter of saving him hidden anymore, but it still needed a little smoothing over.

So Soren followed her out.

"Lord Soren is a lot easier to deal with now," Joanna said.

"Looks to me like it's only with Fiona." Mrs. Niven's voice carried a trace of unease.

Joanna spoke more carefully then. "But Fiona's... marriage is already settled."

Mrs. Niven frowned, only hoping that was not where this was heading.

Joanna, though, still had a little bitterness sitting in her chest. Her own daughter's marriage was a complete mess right now, while Fiona's prospects seemed almost too good.

But then she thought of how Fiona had done everything she could for her daughter over Elijah's matter, and that small urge to compare them faded away.

In the end, Fiona doing well was good for the Niven family, and good for Aiden and Rita too.

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"Who told Lord Soren he could come here without letting me know first?" Fiona asked on the way to the second branch, settling the score with him as they walked.

"Didn't Mrs. Niven send someone to tell you?"

"Couldn't Lord Soren have had Harriet come tell me?" What she meant was simple enough. If she hadn't agreed, then he had no business coming to the Niven family.

Soren said, "If I did it that way, you wouldn't have seen me."

He had that exactly right. Fiona hadn't wanted to see him today.

"Ms. Chambers had to return to Jexburgh now too, so I couldn't very well leave her to come back alone. That's why I brought her.

As for that life-saving debt, if anyone deserves her thanks, it should be Quentin. He was the one who carried her back to the tent, and he was the one who treated her wounds."

Fiona said, "And yet for Lord Soren's sake, she even gave up being the talented lady."

"I never needed her sacrifice.

It didn't help me in the slightest. What you did for me was real. Without Fiona, there wouldn't be a Soren standing here today.

And you were the one who risked yourself to save my life. If anyone made a sacrifice, it was you."

Put plainly, Hillary's sacrifice had been nothing more than something she could use to move herself. Fiona's sacrifice had truly saved Soren's life.

Not just his life.

His soul too. Without that thread of warmth, he didn't dare think about what kind of dried-up, rotted man he might have become.

Soren had also figured out some things. There was a reason Fiona pushed back against him so hard.

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