"You
heard me. Does my welfare concern you, my princess?" He held his breath as
he waited for her answer.
Morgane bit
her lip. With a hitch in her voice, she whispered, "You know that it
does."
Blood sang
in Alan's veins as fierce joy seized him. "I do not know how you feel, and
that is the truth. Will you not tell me?"
Did he dare
to touch her? He had no choice in the matter. Death would claim him unless he
felt her silken skin under his hand. Morgane gasped when his hand came to rest
against her shoulder. "Tell me," he breathed, his heart hammering in
his chest.
Morgane
rolled over and faced him. He felt surprised to see anger on her face.
"Why do you torment me, Prince Alan?"
Alan pushed
back from her. "I? I torment you?"
"Yes!
You torment me night and day. Your face is never far from my thoughts. In the
morning my eyes fall upon you, and my heart sings to have another day in your
presence. We were not supposed to have a common life at all! I tried very hard
to run away, and you angered your father so much he put you through a year of
torment to bend you to his will." A little smile came to rest on her face.
"But you did not bend, did you? Nor did you break. You remained the same
man you always were. I know this in my heart."
With a
suddenness that took his breath away, laughter and light fled from her face.
Bleak resignation and hopelessness turned her eyes into two wells of horror.
"If I were as beautiful now as I once was, then you would find it
difficult to turn away from me." Her lip quivered. "I know that no
man wants a scarred woman, but I had hoped..."
"What
had you hoped?"
"That
you could love me."
Blurb:
Forced by his father into a marriage he
didn’t want, Prince Alan soon finds that his bride isn’t the sweet, submissive
creature he expected. Morgane has the
heart of a dragon and beauty beyond compare, but she isn’t thrilled about the
marriage either. When black treachery
threatens the kingdom, Morgane and Alan embark on a perilous journey that has
an excellent chance of ending in failure and death for them and all of their
people.
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