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Annwyl laughed "I would hope so"

Together theyway to the back stairs and up theth, but she handled it better than she could have hoped Keeping the conversation light with stories of her vapid sisters-in-law, Dagown and washed up Then she helped her into bed, s when she realized the queen was already asleep before Dag

She silently slipped out of the roo the door, when she heard a womar looked down the hallway and watched as Gwenvael led so her head at her own idiocy--Did you really think you had a bolt’s chance in hell with that?--Daght air

Chapter 21

Gwenvael didn’t think he’d ever pry Duchess Bantor off his neck She clung to hi her et rid of than usual He finally duirl who liked the way he crossed his eyes when her ladyship drunkenly told hi, Gwenvael went down the four flights of stairs to the second floor, walked past his own rooht into Briec

"Ho there, Briec! What a delightful ass you’re carrying"

"A delightful drunken ass"

"I’rinned "The ass speaks"

"Put me down!" the ass demanded "I can walk on e, and Talaith grabbed hold of herthe floor

"See?" she said, when she’d finally found her balance "I’m as dry as the desert sands"

And to prove it, Briec pulled his ar to hold on to, Talaith went down like a stone statue Gwenvael once stole

Talaith glared up at Briec "Bastard"

"I told you, on for you," Gwenvael reant one Whereas I a and siant bone in my beautiful, perfect body"

Briec’s eye twitched seconds before he jerked toward his brother, but Gwenvael held up his hands "Not the face! Not the face! I have plans for this evening and my perfection must re down at his brother’sof which, last I saw you, you ith the cunning"--Gwenvael flashed his teeth at his brother, et herself to her feet, "she was heading outside"