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Chapter 17
"Then why are you weeping like a child who's had her favorite teddy stolen from her?"
Alcina scowls.
She catches the tug of an amused smile at the edge of Brendan's lips, and it makes a flush rise on her cheeks. "I am not a child," she mutters sourly.
"I just. I have been- I just. There was a letter," Alcina finally says lamely, explaining absolutely nothing about their current circumstances.
She's been sold off like a particularly unwanted cattle by her family to the man. The man they only whisper about cautiously in the safety of their own homes, as the nightmare ghost in human form.
She has had to leave everything, her home, belongings, and the only family she has ever known and loved.
And had to come to these unfamiliar lands, which she had long thought would be a terrifying lair fit for a monster.
She has been entrapped by terrifying bandits nearly lost her life. And then witnessed other men lose theirs in a display o
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