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“You don’t have to like it, you just have to do it” Rolf’s voice Closer, almost to the cabin “You knohat’s at stake here”

The last piece of paper in place, he lowered the kitchen island’s top It clicked softly back into place Ruby whipped around and grabbed the potted plant, placed it on the island, and adjusted it so it was in the sale word between them, they turned in unison and hustled silently to the backdoor

“That bargaining chip won’t always be in your possession” The Sparrow’s voice was right outside the front door

Lucas opened the backdoor Ruby hurried through it with hi it shut just as the front door began to open

“The wedding changes nothing,” Rolf said, his voice a low snarl “Everyone knows it but you”

The closed backdoor blocked out whatever the Sparrow said in response He rolled the conversation around in his head, exas as he and Ruby slipped through a second gate cut into the hedges behind the Sparrow’s cabin

The wedding changes nothing

A reference to the ar Ruby in danger by black her into this plan, but that hadn’t mattered before he’d lass shards

Finally, far enough from the Sparrow’s cabin to offer a ers around her wrist and pulled her to a stop beside hiht up to his instinctual intention She opened beneath hi her ar to turn down He swept his tongue inside, plundering her sweetness and teasing one of those soft moans from her

The kiss wasn’t a proy It was a wish he knew couldn’t come true, but that didn’t er in that than all the goons on Fare Island

A rustle up ahead sent adrenaline spiking through his veins, and he broke the kiss in tirid cohtout in a school hallway

“Oh, there you two are,” Ingrid said, her eyes less focused and duller than usual, the air of y replaced by an al, you need to help with the seating arrangements Nearly everyone has said yes, and I think Rolf invited half of Europe, and you knowto make dinner an unholy misery”

Giving hih Ruby’s and led her back to the main house while all Lucas could do atch from a distance as she disappeared inside

Chapter Eleven

The next night, after another day of fake wedding preparation madness and frustrated attempts to steal some alone time with Lucas to search for any infore, Ruby cut into her lamb chop and tried to focus on herbouquet