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"I’m always up for it," Warnick boasted "And with you so distracted, I ht actually win this one I’ll send notice to the lads When would you like to leave?"

"To said As soon as he could be rid of this place and its me is repaired"

King followed his friend’s gaze, hating the look of the carriage he’d once loved so dearly, now rife with memories of her "No thanks to you"

The duke s your wheels"

"They weren’t hers to sell She’s a thief"

"You think I didn’t know that? She’s very convincing"

I wished to say that I love you

He’d never been so convinced of anything in his life

He’d never wanted so to be ered carriage wheels and her glorious defiance earlier, when she lifted her skirts high and cli her up

And now as he faced a drive back to Lyne Castle, those er a place of safety, ehts of speed and cohts of her With her pretty lies

I wanted you Forever

"I’ll sell it to you," he said

Warnick blinked "The curricle?"

"Right now," King said

The duke watched hi moment "How h, special wheels, the perfectly balanced springs, designed to keep the seat as light and cohter than other curricles Built to King’s exact specifications by the finest craftser

She’d ruined it

He shook his head "Nothing I don’t want it any longer" He considered the horses and turned back to the duke "I require a saddle"

"You are giving me your curricle," Warnick said "For a saddle"

"If you don’t want it--" King said

"Oh, no I want it," Warnick replied, shock in his Scots burr,to the door to send a servant for a saddle

"Good," King said,to unhitch one of the blacks "You can return the other horse when you’ve ti minutes it took for a saddle to arrive from Warnick’s stables, until the duke spoke "If I ht I made it clear that I wish you wouldn’t"

Warnick did not seeht so low by love"

"I don’t love her," he snapped

And what a lie that was

"It’s too bad, that," Warnick said, crushing the remainder of his cheroot beneath his boot "As she seemed to love you quite a bit"

She’d betrayed hiiven her freely Without hesitation Along with his love

"Love is not everything"

The saddle arrived then, and Kingit to his horse Warnick was quiet for a long ti "That may be the case, but with the way you look, I wouldn’t believe it And with the way you look, I’rateful I’ve escaped ithimself into the saddle

"She’ll want children, you know," Warnick said "They all want children"

The words brought back the vision of those little, blue-eyed girls The ones he’d been sure he’d never know