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Amelia couldn’t believe the difference in hieniality She didn’t like it She had dreaed for, but she had fallen in love with her dark and surly warrior

"You’re frowning" He sat up and the sheet pooled at his waist

Blushing, she realized that she had been stripped, too She turned away, e from me?"

She couldn’t er

"Aer so affable It held an edge of concern

When she looked up, his broere knitted together, and he was frowning She threw her arms around his neck "You’re you!" she cried out

"Of course I am" His arms went around her, and he pulled her into his lap to sit between his legs "What’s going on?"

"I feel like I don’t know you when you’re s I like your frowny face better" She sniffed and used the sheet to wipe her nose

"My frowny face? Gods above, what a nize me unless I’m a sullen bastard" Darian cradled her head to his chest

"I like you grulared at her "How’s this?"

She giggled "Much better"

His features softened "I’ll have to introduce you to ed "You see"

His eyebrows shot up "Shifty? Shifty! I’ll give you shifty!" He started tickling her ive!" she shouted

"I even serenaded you," he gru her down to lie beside hie a fellow bard who happened to have written the words to describe an to trace his finger down her body "How are you doing, really?"

Her breath caught in her throat, and all of her attention was on the tip of his finger ed to squeak out She felt s He was barely touching her and she could barely think

"A," he said, laying his hand flat over her heart