“I didn’t know it was possible to love someone so much,” Ari murmured into the damp hollow of his shoulder, linking her fingers behind his back, delighting in the knowledge that this rock-solid body belonged only to her. “You are mine.”
“I am your shield and buckler, my sweet. I will hold the world at bay for you,” he murmured, smiling at the strength of her encircling arms, their rounded softness concealing their muscular firmness. “And I will be all the stronger knowing that you are mine, that your strength is as mine.”
It had been a long and hazardous journey to reach this safe harbor, Ari thought. A harbor where the shared passions of love and desire were secure behind the banner of one small word: trust. She tightened her arms around him once again, stretching her body against his length, secure in the knowledge that nothing could come between them again.
Born in Cairo, Egypt, and raised in the south of England, JANE FEATHER began her writing career when she moved to Washington, D.C., with her family in 1981. She has written several New York Times bestselling romantic series, including her recent Georgian series The Blackwater Brides. She is also the author of the Regency-set Wicked series—A Wicked Gentleman, To Wed a Wicked Prince, and A Husband’s Wicked Ways—and the holiday romance Twelfth Night Secrets. In all, she has written nearly fifty bestselling novels, and there are more than ten million copies of her books in print.
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