As a matter of fact, she has refused to marry me.” “So when's the wedding?” Ramsey asked.

A few minutes later, she was once again riding her own horse. Deciding to take the lead, she nudged the mare into a trot, and as she passed Brodick and Ramsey, she called out, "You used trickery." "Yes, I did," he admitted. "Are you angry with me?" She laughed again. "I don't get angry. I get even." Unbeknownst to her, she had just recited the Buchanan creed.

Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.

As soon as the boy left the hall, Ramsey suggested that Brodick fill Gideon in on all that had transpired. "Our commanders are going to have to coordinate their efforts for the attack," he said. "Iain wants Winslow and Dylan and you to handpick the soldiers who'll ride with us into England." "We're attacking England?" Gideon asked, astonished. "No," Brodick answered. "Though the thought of it warms my heart.

You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.

One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent

Is he all right?" Jade asked Sterns. He Swooned" I know he swooned," Jade replied.