Seventy-one
Jasper Jefferies
Gwyneth visited me in my dreams. They were hazy things, filled with visions of the girl that I loved who wouldn’t have me. In my dreams, she came in with a blond woman. The doctor that Orion Spires used to have me patched up so that he could shoot me all over again. I had no idea what his intentions were for me, if only to lord something over Cadoc. Penelope wasn’t playing ball the way he’d hoped.
She was engaged to someone else, if the rumors were to be believed. Harkin Redford. Crowe had given his blessing, and there was nothing anyone could do about it. Not even Cadoc. Unless he wanted to force her to marry him by royal decree. And even Cadoc wasn’t that much of a jackass.
But Dream Gwyneth got me out of Orion’s hi
