Fighting For His Lady by Christi Caldwell

Fighting For His Lady by Christi Caldwell

Author:Christi Caldwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Regency
Publisher: Christi Caldwell
Published: 2020-04-01T16:00:00+00:00


Chapter 7

Later that evening, Patience sat beside the lone window in their rented rooms. She layered her arms on the sill and rested her cheek upon them.

There were but seven days until the fight. The one Sam was slated to lose, and the one their family desperately needed him to win. For their security. For their pride. Everything depended upon it.

So why did she sit here, with the summer sun disappearing over the shops across the way, thinking not of Sam’s match against King—but of Godrick?

Because he’s all I’ve thought of for the better part of three weeks. But for the brief distraction provided during Sam’s lessons, he was always there. She touched her fingertips to her mouth. Her lips still burned with the memory of his kiss. He kissed me.

Her heart skittered a beat, for there had been nothing gentle in that exchange. Rather, it had been two people divided by time who’d come together with an aching desire as potent as it had always been. What madness had possessed her to return his kiss? What madness, when it only weakened her further?

“Because I was always hopeless where he was concerned,” she muttered under her breath. If she were a proper lady, she would have been horrified at being discovered in his arms by a stranger. Her mother might have been a seamstress and her father a fighter, but they’d raised her to be respectable.

Until Godrick, that was. She’d not only given him her heart those long-ago days, but her body as well. And damn her for wanting to give him those gifts all over again.

It was not, however, solely that embrace that occupied her thoughts. She closed her eyes.

He had allowed her to step foot in the ring. Something not even her father had permitted. Oh, he’d allowed her to watch, had even taken pride in her knowledge of the sport. But never had she felt the thrill of the matches she’d observed, because he’d always relegated her to an observer, never a participant.

Until this afternoon. Until Godrick.

In the weeks they’d spent together counseling Sam, the bond they’d always shared, a natural, easy one, had stirred to life, reminding her of how it had once been.

Only, with the passage of time, he was no longer the cocksure young man, but a grown man in full possession of himself. A man who asked for her opinion and allowed her an equal say in Sam’s training.

And soon he would be gone. In just six days, the terms of their agreement would come to an end and—

Her throat worked.

“Is he ready?”

Patience thought of Godrick’s assurances. “As ready as he’ll ever be for King,” she settled for.

Removing her cloak, Ruth set the garment on the hook behind the door. “That isn’t an answer.”

She closed her mouth. It was the only one she’d give. When she returned from work, it was Ruth’s custom to seek out their shared chamber and read. Instead, she drifted over. “We could always ask Godrick for help. I don’t doubt he would.



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