![]() Pride exploded in Royce's battered being-because, somehow, she was managing to stand as proudly-as defiantly-as if she had just been knighted by a king. Standing up, she stepped back, lifted her tear-streaked face to his, and squared her shoulders. ![]() By the time she finally arose, there could not have been many among the spectators who had not seen what she had done. In front of seven thousand onlookers, Jennifer Merrick Westmoreland, countess of Rockbourn, knelt before her husband in a public act of humble obeisance, her face pressed to his hand, her shoulders wrenched with violent sobs. Through his daze of pain and confusion, Royce finally understood that she was kneeling to him, and a groan tore from his chest: "Darling," he said brokenly, tightening his hand, trying to make her stand, "don't do this…"īut his wife wouldn't listen. ![]() But instead of reaching for his lance or her dagger, she took his hand between both of hers and pressed her lips to it. ![]() Abducted from her convent school, headstrong Scottish beauty Jennifer Merrick does not easily surrender to Royce. ![]() Unmoving, he watched her, noting that tears were pouring down her beautiful face as she slowly bent down. The 1 New York Times bestselling author continues her evocative Westmoreland Dynasty Saga with this romance following two defiant hearts clashing over a furious battle of wills in the glorious age of chivalry. “Royce understood then why she had come: she had come to finish the task her relatives had begun to do to him what he had done to her brother. ![]()
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