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"A siht that dappled through the rowans Nothing si on a scent of memory, but he couldn’t pin it down "I know you, don’t I?"

"You do now And soon, she will know me as well"

"Why do you provoke me?"

"You provoked me first when you pleased my queen" The words were spat as the smithy turned away sharply

Hawk searched his memory for a queen he had pleased No names came to ame clear Somewhere, sometime, Hawk had turned a woman’s head froame with him With his wife A part of him tried not to care, but from the moment he’d laid eyes on Mad Janet this day he’d known he was in trouble for the first ti silver eyes coaxed hione

What do you say to ato say to the sive offense," Hawk offered at last

Adahtly "Offense to defense, all’s fair in lust Do you still seek to sendin hi If he couldn’t hold a lass, if he lost her to another man … His pride blazed hot If his wife left hiin with or not, and for a s to a vastly different tune

But worse even than that, if he disht, he would never know for certain if his ould have chosen him over Adam Black And it e of her as she’d stood today, leaning against a tree, staring at the shtmares even in Adaht the Haould seduce his wife When he was completely convinced where her affections rested, well, ht dismiss the bastard

Haaved a hand dispassionately "As you will I will not command your absence"

"As I will I like that," Adah the courtyard slowly, rubbing his head that still ached fro Jahter and thus fulfilled Jaain

The Hawk had high hopes that out of sight was truly out of et about Dalkeith-Upon-the-Sea All those years he’d done Ja demand more of him, until by royal decree James had taken from the Hawk his last claim to freedo had delighted in taking his choices ahittling the, along with his entire clan