Worth Fighting For
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Worth Fighting For: England 1192 …“I still don’t understand how you can like me. I really don’t deserve you.” “We deserve each other, trust me. I was the one who was going to kill my betrothed, after all.” “My brave girl,” he said, kissing the center of her forehead. “What changed your mind?” he asked
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Worth Fighting For: England, 1192 …His fingers touched her face, curled around her neck and tipped her further into him, her jaw unclamping naturally. “That’s better,” he breathed, and then his tongue touched her front teeth, reached further into her mouth and found her tongue with his own. Oh… She groaned, and then stopped herself
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Worth Fighting For: England, 1192 …John shook his head. “My reputation has been well earned. I never meant for it to be that way. Whatever’s civilized in me I created for the sake of Peter and anyone else I hadn’t wanted to hurt.” Alana took a hold of his hair with both hands, holding his
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Worth Fighting For: England, 1192 …Alana looked to John. “Would you like to?” Peter almost laughed at the blank look on John’s face. It was cruel, he supposed, but watching his brother come to that reckoning Peter knew he one day would, was gratifying. Or maybe that was sibling rivalry talking. “I would be honored
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Worth Fighting For England, 1192 …“I…” Pull it together, Matthew. Had you or had you not once served on the king’s guard? “Lizzy’s bringing us some food. I haven’t eaten yet today and I was training.” Her brow furrowed. “Why didn’t you eat?” Jennifer looked him over as if to assess if there was anything
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Worth Fighting For: England, 1192 …“I knew you didn’t smell right,” Cedrick said. Oh, now if that wasn’t the most disgusting thing she’d heard in a long time. “You don’t smell like a boy,” he continued, pushing away from the tree. Jennifer held her ground, the knife in her hand but at her side. She
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…Slowly, John curved one hand around her bottom, and then eased her into him. Alana could feel—oh. Being nose-to-nose put every part of him to hand, as if they were two interlocking pieces that only needed to be pressed closely enough together. She closed her eyes against him, her breath lost and her body demanding
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Worth Fighting For: England, 1192 …Alana let herself go, for the moment. She didn’t have any choice but to be strong but right then all she wanted was for him to hold her. “I…” she almost wanted to tell him the truth; it felt so right to be like this, to spill each other out,
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Worth Fighting For: England, 1192 …“I won’t just let you go, and even if you were to leave me I would track you down. Do you think that I couldn’t find you?” She hadn’t given that part much thought. “I assumed I wouldn’t make it through the winter anyway,” she admitted. It took him a
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