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Haatched in silence as Rushka joined the funeral walk for his daughter

When one of the Rom betrayed the rules by which they lived, he or she was disciplined by their own It was a tight-knit community Wild they could be, and liberal-s But there were rules by which they lived, and those rules were never to be reat iave shelter to the Ro to kill the Haife, she had attempted to har else, the Hawk could sense it So else Esht strife upon her people

As Haatched the procession wind toward the sea, he whispered a Ro hie and cleansed his wounded hand with Scotch and water Carefully, he untied the leather pouch and wondered curiously at the assortment of stoppered flasks that fell out He picked up the poultice and laid it to the side, sorting through the rest

Just what had the seer seen? he wondered griiven hiain

Hawk snorted One was an aphrodisiac he’d tried in his younger days That one didn’t worry him too much The one he despised was the potion that had been created to keep a ed but detached state of sexual arousal

He turned the flask with the vile green liquid in it this way and that, watching the sun reflect off the faceted prisms of the stoppered bottle Shadows rose up and taunted him openly for a time, until his obdurate will banished them back to hell Quickly he spread the poultice, which eased the pain and would speed recovery In a fortnight his hand would be well knit

Adaht said it, Rushka had insinuated that it was Adaht Whichto kill Adrienne

What else did Adam know?

And just what had made his friend Rushka, who had never once shown terror in all the thirty-odd years Hawk had known hih answers Every one pointed an accusing finger toward the s to seduce Haife

My ho doesn’t want h to even ask about me when I ounded

Esmerelda was dead, but Rushka had made it clear that the real threat was still there, and close enough to Dalkeith to drive the Rom away Apparently Adam was involved And he’d left his wife in the thick of it Keep close and closer …

The Hawk’sfor the most feasible solution to his myriad problems Suddenly the answer seemed iht of it before But the lass had a way of getting so far under his skin that his ical fashion with her in the vicinity No longer! It was ti circumstances to continue to run amok

His pact with Adam entailed that he could not forbid Adrienne to see the smithy But he could make it damned difficult for her to do so He would take her to Uster with hi Adam Black

So what if she hadn’t asked about him? She’d made it clear from day one that she didn’t want to be wed to him She had vowed to hate him forever, yet he would swear her body responded to his He’d have her all to himself in Uster and be able to test that theory

Just when had he beco her queen, his conscience re her here, in spite of her wishes, if she is indeed frouilt was for losers and fools Not for Sidheach Douglas There was no guilt involved when she was at stake "I love her," he told the wind "And so I’ve becoreatest kind of fool"

A nice one

Time to remedy that Guilt and passivity dropped away fro instant The Haho turned his steed around and headed for Dalkeith-Upon-the-Sea to claim his as the true na conqueror who had run ramshod over any who dared oppose him I commit, I attain, I prevail

He leapt to his er into a full run Seel and jess, my sweet falcon, he proh of rowans, Adam stiffened Not fair! Not fair! Get thee hence! But fair or not, he’d seen true The Hawk had turned around and was co back to take Adrienne aith him That was si drastic