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How ironic that the spot his bride had chosen for their wedding had once been the most popular dueling ground in New Orleans.

Too bad the twenty-first century was more civilized. If Jake could have called his bride’s father out and shot him, he would have.

Jake wanted to hate Alicia for complicating his life, but reason told him he was equally to blame. He didn’t want to marry her, but with every word that the priest uttered binding him to Alicia Butler, his desire for her grew until it felt like a crushing weight. Indeed, ever since he’d agreed to the marriage, thoughts of Alicia in his bed had consumed him.

They say a little piece of paper doesn’t matter; that it changes nothing.

They don’t know anything. He felt trapped. Doomed. At the same time his body raged to have her again.