Chapter 64

Amelia blinked. Had Gabriel been wrong? Did they, perhaps, no longer desire her at all? Were they simply going to let her walk through them and head to her house?

But just as she reached the first line of men and stepped in between them, they closed ranks at the back of her until she was totally surrounded and while the house in the front of her was left clear, the guys in the course she was going did now not go to make room for her to pass.

She frowned, but remembered that she wasn't to speak or invite anything from them, so without any different option, she just stored walking.

Ten ft earlier than she hit line of men that would block her Course, one of them stepped from her right to stand in front of her.

He was shorter than Gabriel, but closely muscled if the breadth of his shoulders was anything to go by. Swathed in furs, she could not see a lot past his face.

But then he flashed a smile, his tooth and eyes white in the darkish and he bowed bar