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For a moment John’s hand released its pressure on her arm, but the next second he pulled her forward and pushed her roughly

Elizabeth nearly lost balance, but by a suprean to walk forward

“Everyfrom behind her “Women like you just haven’t realized it yet All it’ll take is one goodaway on top of you and you’ll learn who’s your oive you what you need”

At the na to her knees

John’s laugh was disproportionately loud as he acted as if he’d succeeded in so insolently as Elizabeth struggled to stand, her feet tangled in her skirt, her bound handsher aard

“Excited about Montgomery, are you?” he taunted as he jerked her to her feet For aa dirty fingertip over her delicate lips “How can a woant? You and I could be nice to each other and Lord Pagnell would never know What would it inity anyway, so what difference does a day or so make?”

Elizabeth gathered the saliva in her reat deal of pain in her sore body as his hand caan to run Her tied handsas left of her skirt and causing her to fall, face down, on the ground

“You vicious little slut!” he gasped, turning her over, straddling her “You’ll pay for that I’ve tried to be fair with you but you deserve to be beaten”

Elizabeth’s hands and arms were pinned under her and in spite of all she could do, the pain was causing tears to gather in her eyes “But you won’t beat nell would find out what you’d done and he would beat you Men like you never risk harm to their own precious selves”

John put his hands on her breasts and his lips on hers, grinding his ainst hers, but Elizabeth s

howed no erily walked back toward the horses

Elizabeth sat up and tried to regain her cal her inner eth for the ordeal to come

Montgo in her head Of all her fears, of all her terrors in life, the naomery had caused her sister-in-law to lose her beauty and orace and her brother Brian’s disappearance And indirectly, a Montgomery had caused her own capture

Elizabeth had been an attendant at a friend’s wedding and by accident she’d overheard an odiousto turn a pretty little singer over to his corrupt relatives to be tried as a witch When Elizabeth tried to rescue the girl, Pagnell had caught them and, as a joke, had decided to have Elizabeth delivered to her enes wouldn’t have been so bad if the singer, in a generous but not wholly intelligent gesture, had not given the inforomery