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Beck turned her to look at him His lips were turned down in a

scowl, and his eyes pinned her “They were in play when you got

e was properly witnessed I

signed the paperith the gnomes before we left”

Meg went very still “Marriage?”

“Yes, love, what did you think I was doing with you? I told you I

needed a bondmate You’re my wife now, and there is no divorce”

He said the word as though he found it distasteful

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“I thought you were buyingto wrap

her head around the fact that she had apparently gotten married, and

no one had bothered to tell her She looked at Beck, a little panicked

at the thought He was her husband? “You know, like a slave”

“You have strange words, wife I don’t knohat a slave is, but