She frowned, suddenly realizing how far off the subject she’d rambled. “Anyhow, yore a real handsome feller, and it shore don’t hurt my feelin’s none to look at you, but you ain’t the one I come to be with, hear? You ain’t the one who’s gonna make all my wishes come true, who’s gonna hep me live the rest o’ my short life to the fullest o’ full. Now, iffen you’ll jest tell me where I can find Prince Seneca, I’ll be on my way.”
When he offered no immediate answer to her query, she wondered if he understood why she was so desperate to find the prince. Slowly, she turned from the fire and faced him. “The king’s a-makin’ him marry,” she explained. “Seneca needs a princess, and I need a prince. I cain’t make it no clearer’n that.”
Seneca felt as if he’d been struck by a bolt of lightning. With blinding intensity a myriad of thoughts exploded into his mind...
Seneca needs a princess, and I need a prince.
His father’s smug smile... His father’s taunting promise...
Should you succeed in coming upon your princess before morning, I will honor your choice of brides.
Nine hours... Nine hours.
He raised an ebony brow and deliberated with calculating intensity. Two questions echoed through him:
Would he submit to his father’s decree and marry the cold and impeccable gentlewoman, Callista Inger, whom he’d known for years?
Or would he defy his father for the first time in his life and take to wife the outlandish but warm and hauntingly beautiful mountain girl, Peachy McGee, whom he’d known for all of twenty minutes?
He almost smiled. “Peachy,” he whispered. He took her hand and lifted it to his mouth, brushing his lips across her slender fingers. “I am Seneca.”
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