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“It’s good enough for me and you,” The Sparrow snarled “But not her”
“I know that,” Lucas said
The quiet, simple response made the Sparrow ratchet up his volus you’ve done to get where you are You use people and leave the to survive wherever they happen to land You’re a cold-bl
ooded bastard without a heart”
Thewith slipped fro his body tight The Sparrow dropped a hand to the knife sheathed on his thigh
It was as if the world stopped rotating The only sound in the rooh,” she said, her voice a stone weight, slicing through the air in the tension-filled room “You know his reputation, but you don’t know him”
The Sparrow’s tone softened “And you do?”
Did she? Her brain said no, but so, more primal instinct said she did, that they were more alike than either of them cared to admit “I do”
The Sparrow opened hisroom door burst open before he could Antoine, dressed in head-to-toe orange strolled in with a three-person entourage, oblivious to the tension sparking in the air
“Madame and Mademoiselle Macintosh,” he called out in his truly horrible fake French accent “I cannot express how excited I was to receive the call You kno I adore weddings, even the last minute kind”
“I’ot out of her seat and hustled around the table to the designer “But you knohat a hurry young love is always in”
“That it is” Antoine delivered a pair of air kisses to Ingrid and then turned to face Ruby and Lucas “Now stand up, ood look at e have to ith”
Surrendering to the fact that her life was becohed and stood up Because of the hand-binding chain, Lucas stood up with her, taking her hand in his like a good fraudulent fiancé should What wasn’t fake was the sizzle of desire that rushed across her skin froers with his
Antoine’s gaze dropped to their joined hands, and his face light up with joy and he clapped “I love that you are following the old traditions Oh the stories I’ve heard about what happens during the hand-binding”
“It was supposed to stay on until dinner, but obviously we’ll cut that short so you can get what you need fro out in a rush as the two talked as if Ruby and Lucas weren’t even in the room