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So why does Niko stay with her? Iris challenged, conscious of afamiliar stirring. But when he lifted himself aboveher, she knew their efforts were futile. Husband or no, no one shall handle any woman roughly in my house. We've waited this long.

Keith's dead, Katie whispered. Somebody else would have taken it. He wouldn'thave to live out there, she reasoned. But now I am grown, I am a woman, not so easily led as the child she gave away to be Gorlois's bride.