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“Miss Fontaine, you will not have to be dessert. However…” He took a moment to pour her a glass of wine as well. “If I wanted you for dessert, I’d have you for dessert. And trust me, you would be willing.”
The Firsts had sacrificed much to transform America into the nation it had become; for their labor and blood they were owed something.
“Let me banish your dragons for at least this one night.” He gently lifted her chin to search her shadowed eyes. “May I?”
From a contraband queen to a wife in the celebrated house of LeVeq. Never in her wildest dreams had she imagined she would go from digging yams with her bare hands to finding a freedom that included a dessert named in her honor! Life was amazing, and she vowed to be thankful for it every day for as long as she lived. Amen.
“Slavery is dead, the negro is not, there is the misfortune.”
