Dax smiled back at me, unable to hold back his delight. “You’ll truly leave the city? Leave it all behind?”
I shrugged. I leaned my head against his, my mouth shaping words at his ear. The smell of him filled my nostrils; the taste of his skin was a memory I didn’t think I’d ever tire of revisiting. “I’m not leaving anything of value behind. I’m going with you. That’s the most valuable thing I could ever have. Nothing else is important.”
Dax laughed. He turned his head to rest his cheek against me. “Didn’t I say you were a fool? You’d rather take exile and discomfort and possible death than keep a privileged place in the Queen’s Household.”
“Stupid soldier,” I murmured, my lips against his neck and my words echoing Zander’s to Kiel. “Of course I would. Take us out of here, now.”
He turned, our bodies brushing against each other yet held tantalizingly apart, still anticipating the first chance to be alone and to hold each other properly. He grinned at me, and his eyes shone with something other than the reflection of the waning sunlight.
“Is that an order, Gold Warrior?”
CLARE LONDON took her pen name from the city where she lives, loves, and writes. A lone, brave female in a frenetic, testosterone-fueled family home, she juggles her writing with her other day job as an accountant.
She’s written in many genres and across many settings, with award-winning novels and short stories published both online and in print. She says she likes variety in her writing while friends say she’s just fickle, but as long as both theories spawn good fiction, she’s happy. Most of her work features male/male romance and drama with a healthy serving of physical passion, as she enjoys both reading and writing about strong, sympathetic, and sexy characters.
Clare currently has several novels sulking at that tricky chapter-three stage and plenty of other projects in mind… she just has to find out where she left them in that frenetic, testosterone-fueled family home.
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ISBN: 978-1-63476-463-6
Digital ISBN: 978-1-63476-464-3
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015945884
Published January 2016
v. 2.0
First Edition published by Dreamspinner Press, 2010.
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Table of Contents
Blurb
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
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