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From Thunderlord Chapter 13
“Damisela.” Dom Ruyven
took her by the arm with such firmness that she had no choice but to come away
with him. “We must proceed with all haste to Castle Scathfell, there to await the
bandits’ ransom demand.”
Alayna suppressed an involuntary shudder at his unctuous
manner. At first, she’d attributed it to unfamiliarity with unmarried young
women, and beautiful ones at that. Kyria might not be conventionally pretty,
but had a striking vitality that transformed her regular features into a
luminous beauty, or so Alayna thought, although Kyria might well accuse her of
seeing through the heart instead of the eyes. As for Alayna herself, everyone
said she was the beauty of the family. She had long known this to be true, from
her first memories of being petted and indulged as a young child, the darling
of the household. As she grew into womanhood, she saw the effect she had on men,
the way even the strongest blushed and stammered.
But not so with Dom
Ruyven. He had treated her with distant politeness, when he had bothered to
address himself to her at all, thinking first of his own comfort and safety, then
of Kyria’s. The bandit attack had changed that. All of a sudden, this lord –
who had never spared more than a passing glance at her, and never a word as to
how she fared – treated her in the most solicitous manner. What did he want?
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