There were only so many ways a manโs heart could break, and he had a feeling his couldnโt survive another puncture.
Julia QuinnHe sucked his lips in an attempt not to laugh. "Aren't you Spanish?" She raised one arm in a salute. "Viva la Queen Isabella!" "I see. Then why are you speaking with a French accent?
Julia QuinnDaniel immediately knelt at her side, pulling her close. โItโs all right,โ he murmured. โEverything is going to be all right.โ Anne shook her head. โNo, itโs not.โ She looked up, her eyes shining with love. โItโs going to be so much better.
Julia QuinnInteresting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal-a scrumptious bowl of hot, sticky porridge-he had mucked out the stable stalls, milked a cow, been pecked by three separate hens, weeded a vegetable garden, and fallen into a trough.
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