ita

as breathing heavily, his armor caked in dust from

roval. "You should be in the Northern Marches attend

ic, gasped, his voice shaking with an emotion I

landing on me, a flicker of confusion in his eyes. B

d, the words echoing off the col

rld st

ring in my ears. Alive? Gi

hat are you saying? That's impossible! The military repo

ng with a faint, pulsing red light. "He took a mortal wound in the ambush, My Lady. His soul we

body to a secret outpost, refusing to believe he was trul

ad just bound myself to a

d that

... wife. The wife of a livi

ed joy. She grabbed my hand, her grip surprisingly stro

returned Gideon to us! And you... you ar

ound us began to murmur, t

the very same day we learn he's

derly retainer breathed. "Perhaps she'

ho had just made the riskiest bet of her

back, fierce and unyielding. My husband. A man I had nev

through the esta

l back to the main house. Every servant

a glimpse of his face through the window-a mask of dis

he Harrison family ring now on my hand. Her jaw tightened, but she said nothing. Whatever she thought of the c

bridal suite. Eleanor assigned her most trusted handm

oreign, bizarre. "Lord Gideon is being transported back to the estate un

Jov

world had been turned upside-down in a single afternoon. From

is was only t

juries were severe. The healers said his Dragon Soul had falle

a man who was hovering on the edge of d

hat would you say now, Mama? I wondered. Would

ably

ll I could see was the