Love’s Sweet Sting by Markland Anna

Author:Markland, Anna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Nolana gazed down at the sea, forehead resting on the rusted iron bar across the narrow window slit. It seemed ludicrous that someone long ago deemed it necessary to secure such a small and impossibly high opening. She licked her split lip, tasting salt.

Outside, laughing gulls soared and danced on the stiff breeze. Compared to the vastness of the ocean, she was a mere nothing. Was it for this she had been born—humiliation, cruelty and despair? Life should hold something more but, as long as cruel men ruled, women would suffer. The only compassionate man she had ever met, ever loved, was a monk...out of reach.

Loved? Did she love Aidan? No man had caused sensual cravings. Even as she thought of him in these dire circumstances, moisture pooled in an intimate place and her breasts tingled. Perhaps she was losing her wits. Would the baron want to marry a madwoman?

Revulsion surged in her throat when she thought of the prospect of marriage to Grouchet. He had the same cruel glint in his eyes as Neyll. Her fate was sealed. He would not care about her sanity, provided she was fertile.

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