Daemyn felt an indescribable sense of relief when Ryn said that no, she had never met Daphisio. While she was a girl and therefore no threat whatsoever to his claim to Taraias, it still made him feel better that she hadn't met him. She's a bastard girl. She's nothing to worry about.
But he had been attracted to her. So far as he was concerned, that was every bit as bad as feeling anything for Janna or Daphnia. That wouldn't happen, yet this had? That shook a his view of the world just a little bit, and he didn't like it. Daemyn's world had been a set thing thus far and now it was being shifted in ways that he hadn't expected.
"That I have difficulty believing," Daemyn said at least, a bit of a sneer finding its way onto his face. "Who can say that they have a claim of any sort to a wealthy family and want nothing from them?" He glanced around the brothel. "I am sure you paid for this all on your own, without any money at all from my father."