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We said our goodbyes and I seriously considered sitting watch outside her house all night Wrenching myself away from her was hard as hell, but I knew that if my presence was uards ht be sent to scour the countryside for me

I couldn’t allow that

I wasn’t even close to ready to tell Iris that I wasn’t some carpenter who “happened” upon her farm

So, I walked back and slipped into the ruined tower unseen, ate when the appropriate tihts of having her in my bed Or better still, in the room below my tower

Chapter 8

Randal

In the early hours of the following , just before I was about to rise and head back to Iris, there was a knock at my bedchamber door

“Leave it there, I’ll have it when I want it,” I said, annoyed at whichever servant had decided to bring me breakfast so early My tes, a reputation I’d cultivated to allowthe day

“King Braht to his bedchamber”

This ht here

“King Bra lost the any abilities in that department”

There was a h to lad I reht

“I’ or not”

“Really? How do you propose to do that? How many men are with you out there?”