[He'd have to give a pull to get his hand back, anyway. She's holding it so tightly her knuckles are white.]
There's more. [Fine. Might as well get it out now, do her damage, then deal with the fallout.] I found out I was pregnant during that time. Once you were well enough, we set off to France. [To change history. God, what a mess that was. Paris was hell.]
She was born dead. I was--I was close to the mother superior at the church where she's buried. She baptized her and named her Faith. [Jamie's a religious man, she knows it means something to him that their child be buried in hallowed ground.] Faith Fraser.
[There's more to it of course. That duel with Randall and what he did to Fergus. Sleeping with the king. Letting him stay in the Bastille for months because she was so angry. But the knot in her throat hurts too much to speak around.]
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There's more. [Fine. Might as well get it out now, do her damage, then deal with the fallout.] I found out I was pregnant during that time. Once you were well enough, we set off to France. [To change history. God, what a mess that was. Paris was hell.]
She was born dead. I was--I was close to the mother superior at the church where she's buried. She baptized her and named her Faith. [Jamie's a religious man, she knows it means something to him that their child be buried in hallowed ground.] Faith Fraser.
[There's more to it of course. That duel with Randall and what he did to Fergus. Sleeping with the king. Letting him stay in the Bastille for months because she was so angry. But the knot in her throat hurts too much to speak around.]