Besieged Heart (No Ordinary Lovers Collection) - Plot & Excerpts
Faced with Mara’s challenge to settle the outcome of the siege by right of arms, he laughed aloud and slapped his knee at the jest. That was before Rayne stepped forward to present himself as her champion.The insignia of deer and longbows, quartered, that was etched into the breastplate Rayne wore caught the light of torches and wax tapers. The baron blanched. A big man, well-fleshed, he seemed to shrink while he glared at Rayne’s features and tall form.“Who are you?” Ewloe demanded. “What is your rank and title that you dare seek to contest with me?”Rayne smiled, a movement of the lips that did not affect the chill of his eyes. “I am my father’s son.”“A nameless bastard, then.”There was craftiness as well as scorn in the baron’s charge. Mara held her breath, for it was the older man’s right to refuse to meet a man he considered his inferior.“My father and my mother took each other in handfast marriage,” Rayne said evenly. “Without witnesses, I’ll vow!”
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