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“No harm will come to you from our hands, lady,” Fallon told her quietly. That depended on his definition of harm. A man and a woman’s ideas on harm often differed.
If the woman, Shea, had wanted to make him lose interest in her, she should have simply surrendered. Now, she presented a challenge. Prey to be hunted.
She got the kind of feeling she sometimes got when life was about to kick her in the teeth. The kind where all the rules got thrown out, and her world was set on its head.
It was going to be tough getting Dane to leave without Shea. He’d had a massive crush on the girl since Edgecomb. Witt couldn’t blame him. Shea was a looker. Only reason half the men in the village weren’t knocking down her door was because she intimidated the hell out of them. Her no nonsense gaze had a way of stripping a man down to size. Witt got a kick out of it every time she did it. She reminded him of another time. Another girl who had that same clear gaze.
One day she was going to get control of herself and stop doing stupid shit to save ungrateful idiots.
She’d never put much stock in her looks. They were always just there. Like the sun or the sky. Neither helping nor hindering. Her strength, speed and capability were infinitely more important.
Going home would feed a need in her. Yes. But the sad truth was that the home she wanted no longer existed. All that was left for her back there was heartbreak and disappointment.
home wasn’t a place; it’s a state of mind. It’s the people you’re with. And for her, those people were all here.
But mostly, because you are mine, and I crave the same commitment from you.”
You could accomplish some truly heinous things once emotion has been tucked away. Anger dies, eventually, if you sate it with enough blood. Hate fades. Grief dwindles. There are reasons behind emotion. Such is not the case with true detachment.
“This woman is going to rule at my side as I conquer these lands and lead my people into a golden age of prosperity. Our children will rule long after we have left this world and their children after them.”
