Page 37 of One Knight
It was unthinkable. He would never let it happen.
Never again, he vowed.Never again.
“Rolf, take the soldiers. The rest of us ride for the manor.”
Safe in the solarium, with Hilda fast asleep in the next room, Elisande curled into her husband’s arms.
The king and his entourage had left to attend to royal business, and she was grateful not to have to worry about seeing to their needs.
“Are you sure you’re all right?” Henry asked her for the tenth time since they’d arrived.
“Yes, just shaken. Although I may not want to get on a horse again for another year after this.”
“I will see what I can do, my lady.”
She buried her face in his chest and burst into laughter.
“What is that for?”
“I have never had so much excitement in my whole life until you arrived.”
He stilled. “Do you wish I’d never come?”
Elisande lifted her gaze to his beautiful blue eyes. “I was just wondering what took you so long.”
“Had I known what a beautiful, courageous woman awaited me here, I promise I would have come much sooner, my lady.”
And then he kissed her, and Elisande decided nothing else mattered except this one knight.
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