Crossed in Love, page 24
Beginning to lose his patience, the highwayman leaned over to wrap his fingers around the gold locket at her throat. “Are you so rich you have forgotten how to walk? Then you won’t mind if I relieve you of this feeble trinket. I daresay Lansbury was too smart to bait a trap with real jewels.”
Daphne smacked at his gloved hand and stepped backward. Her foot slipped on the damp moss and her weak knee betrayed her. The aching cold of the river water had done its damage, as she’d feared.
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