Chapter 66. So Much Blood

Rafe

She’s beautiful.

If my heart still beat, it would be pounding at the sight of her. If I needed to breathe, she would have taken my breath away.

Ainslee hadn’t seen me looking, at least I don’t think she had, but I did. I couldn’t help but stare at her as she walked down the aisle. Now that she’s in front of me at the altar, I can’t take my eyes off her. Every damn time she smiles at King Axel, my chest aches a little more.

The blood in my veins boils hot. Ainslee is mine. I should be the one up there on the dais, grinning like an idiot because I get to marry the most stunning creature to ever walk the earth. I’d wed her and steal her away to my bedroom and make love to her over and over, guests be damned. I’d be undoing that bodice and releasing those gorgeous breasts before the priest finished pronouncing us man and wife.

Or perhaps not. I glance at the tent she’d come out of. Yes, that was close enough. I don’t think I’d have mad