“I don’t know why either,” she said softly. “You break my heart, over and over.”
He rubbed his jaw. “I heard what the Queen said, on the way to Camelot—about everything being different now. She was right, you know.” He dropped his hand. “Aah! Why am I dithering like this?” he added, his voice harsh.
Tegan drew in a breath. “Did you bring me here to tell me that we should part? Because I already know that.”
His gaze met hers. “Is that what you want? To be free of me?”
“It is what you want,” she pointed out.
His gaze did not waiver. “No, it isn’t,” he said softly.
Her heart smashed itself to pieces inside her chest. She gasped, pressing her hand to her chest. “You don’t like women like me,” she breathed.
“Which is a tom-fool piece of arrogance I wish I had recognized years ago,” Gawain said with a sigh. He threw out his hand toward the arena—no, toward Avalon, which was a tiny spike upon the horizon. “I liked that you were there with me,” he said. “I liked sharing that with you. I’ve fought alongside men all my life and drunk with them and reminisced. Now I can reminisce with you…and that pleases me in a way that makes my chest burn.” He stopped. He was breathing hard. “I think I am falling in love with you, my fierce one.”
Tegan held her fingertips to her mouth to hold in any sound she might make, lest she halt his words and bring an end to this moment.
But to her delight, Gawain did not stop. “We are constantly at loggerheads. We argue. You never accept what I say without due consideration—except in a battle, when you leap instantly to obey, even when you consider the command one of a lunatic.”
Tegan pressed her lips together to not laugh. “Such as running at you?”
Gawain shook his head. “It has taken me until now to realize that I like trouble and tempest, when it comes from you.” He pressed against the chair, coming as close to her as the stone would allow, and caught her face in his hands. His blue eyes roamed over her face. Then he met her gaze. “I would like to love you, hellcat of my heart. Will you forgive me for my obtuse ignorance all these years and let me try?”
“Yes,” Tegan breathed—the most her throat would allow her to speak.
Gawain touched his lips to her. “It won’t be easy,” he warned her. “We are flint and rock to each other, but…but, if we work together, as we did today, then I won’t mind the sparks at all.”
Tegan gripped his tunic in her fist, her heart soaring. “Then you had best kiss me, Gawain, or I will give you more trouble than you deserve.”
Gawain’s eyes gleamed. “Promise?” he murmured and kissed her.
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She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian Canadian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.
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FIRST EDITION: April 2020
Cooper-Posey, Tracy
Abduction of Guenivere/Tracy Cooper-Posey—1st Ed.
Romance—Fiction
Historical– Fiction