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"Did hehurt you?" Fearghus had to know Had to knohat she was feeling, thinking And she wouldn’t tell the knight So on

"No"

"I can’t help you if you don’t talk to irl would be the one to send hions that lied to beautiful woers through his ht the desire to purr like a cat "I don’t knohat I want"

"Do you want him?"

"Oh, yes I want him I really want him But"

"But?"

Annwyl could easily spend the rest of her life right here Right on top of this enor his neck Her hands buried in his mane of black hair She wondered what it would be like to ride with hih the deep blue skies of Dark Plains

But would she be happy? Could she give up her life as a leader and a woman to spend the reon?

The knight had opened a new door for her She never trusted anyone enough to let theet that close to her He hadn’t made love to her, as she’d heard the kitchen maids call it What they had was ive that up to stay with her dragon and be no on could really offer her and there would be no guarantee he wanted to give her even that ave her insuron that she wanted to talk to when she awoke in the knight’s aro out of her way to s difficult

"Annwyl?"

She realized that the dragon waited for her answer, but she really had none to give

Annwyl stood on the dragon’s back and stretched "I don’t want to talk about this anymore"

"Then what do you want to talk about?"

Annwyl, on a whi back there?"

"Nothing to worry yourself about, dragon" She balanced her body and proceeded toonly her hands "Tell hus stretched out and Annwyl let out a squeal of surprise as she lost her balance and landed heavily against his back Ignoring her, the dragon rested his enormous head on his arms "I cut the tip of h and wondered what the hell she was going to do

Chapter 11

Hysterical laughter Why did he keep hearing hysterical laughter? Fearghus opened one eye to stare at his two siblings They were practically falling over each other they were laughing so hard They woke him up from a sound sleep for this?

"What?" His current mood wouldn’t allow for this And definitely wouldn’t allow for him

Gwenvael choked out an answer "She braided your hair, brother"

"Like a horse’s rowled and watched Gwenvael snatch their sister out of the way before the stream of white flahter

"If that’s how you feel, you should tell him" Morfyd tossed two apples to Annwyl "But you can’t hide in here all day"

"I know" Annwyl looked at her friend "I’ht"