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Оглавление‘What is this urgent task you require of me?’
‘It’s a simple matter.’ Her fists balled inside her long sleeves. ‘Once it’s done, you may leave Fortemur a free man, well horsed and supplied with sword, lance, and shield from the castle armoury.’
He did not leap at the offer. Jocelyn would not have trusted him if he had. This one, she’d sensed from the moment he’d stood tall and defiant on the auction block, would break before he’d bend.
‘What do you want of me?’
Very well. He wished it without bard or barding. So be it.
‘I want you to lie with me.’
He reared back. ‘What say you?’
‘I want you in my bed this night, and this night only. Then you will leave Fortemur with all I promised you.’
Suspicion warred with incredulity in his face. ‘Why?’
‘The reason is not your concern,’ she said haughtily.
He looked her up and down with an insolence that brought the blood rushing to her cheeks.
