i thought, outside of his feelings for him, he was thinking of how damen was too important politically and militarily to lose. When i first read this final line, from the paragraph it belonged to, i thought it made perfect sense. But now, even knowing the cost, Laurent knew he could have done nothing else. That Laurent had done something that had saved the prince-killer's life at all, let alone when it meant sacrificing Veretian lives, would have been unthinkable some four months ago. Damen was the reason Auguste was gone, and why Laurent had had to order Jord and forty-five other men who'd willingly called Laurent their Prince to their deaths, not to mention the cause of the deaths of countless Veretians whom Laurent had never known, but whom he'd still considered his people, even before he'd been next in line for the throne. Laurent's order for his men to follow him was likely the reason Damen was still here, by all appearances. He felt mixed guilt and relief about Damen sitting beside him now.
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