knight

The pulse visible in the pale column of her neck vibrated faster, her intoxicating scent washed over him, and he was dizzy with lust. Even through his mail and gambeson, he could feel her womanly curves crushed against his hard chest. He uncurled his fingers from her throat and ran the tough leather of his palm__ mitten along her neck and to the enticing curve of her shoulder. He nudged her mantle an inch, exposing skin. He cursed that his hand was covered in mail. How long had he wanted to taste, to touch her precious skin? Unable to resist, he bent and, with his tongue, touched, tasted the heat of the skin on her collarbone. Oh, Christ, she was lovely. She shivered, and satisfaction roared through him.

She straightened and crossed her arms. __ can__ sleep with you,_ she blurted._ __s you please.___s you please?_ She stepped back, the rough wood of the bench bumping her upper calf. She__ braced herself for a battle and now felt oddly deflated. __ou aren__ going to try to talk me into it?___ need not talk women into lying with me.

Here, sleep with your back against me. I shall protect you better this way._ She nodded, shuffled closer, and leaned back against him. Her unique womanly scent washed over him, and he fortified his resolve, though having her so close on a bed of furs fired his blood. She dragged her fur up, and he draped his extra across, tucking it in around her shoulders and arms. __ do not fancy having one of them lying next to you. Besides, I wish not for your pinkie to wander.

Knowing this was the same man from last night now clad again in his hunky knightly armor was a strange aphrodisiac. Yeah, a hot look, no denying.

You will be the death of me, woman.

I have faced death this night, and I have called his bluff.

He was a strong and noble lord with piercing eyes of grey. He sat upon his noble throne shining like the dawn. His sword flashed like the brightest star. He led our people well. Yet here and now he lays in blood pierced with arrows. He was the friend of many knights. He loved the warrior games. His heart was won by a lady fair for marriage they did wait. A kindly prince, his duty carried him to another's bed. And on her death true love returned, finally they wed. He felt the grief of children lost to murder and to pain. I was the youngest of his blood. I'll never be the same. Here lays my father and my lord. I know not what to say. Except my father and my lord was slain here on this day. Here lays my father and my lord. I know not what to say. Except my father and my lord was slain here on this day_.

THE SAFEST PLACE YOU COULD BE IS BESIDE ME._ KANAME

Theirs was a long, complicated story with a monster and a knight. What made their story unique was that these two players were the same person.

My knight may not wear a coat of shining armor, but his code of glowing honor will never fail to protect us both from evils far worse than any fire-breathing dragon.

We are all very much alike in France in this respect; we still remain knights, knights of love and fortune, since God has been abolished whose bodyguard we really were. But nobody can ever get woman out of our hearts; there she is, and there she will remain, and we love her, and shall continue to love her, and go on committing all kinds of follies on her account as long as there is a France on the map of Europe; and even if France were to be wiped off the map, there would always be Frenchmen left.

And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical.

Wars fought over a face like this,_ he murmured like he was talking to himself, my heart stopped beating and his thumbs moved lightly across my cheeks. __ man would work himself into the ground for it, go down to his knees to beg to keep it, endure torture to protect it, take a bullet for it,_ his eyes came to mine, __oison his brother to possess a face like this.

My task is set before me, girl My mission clear and true There__l be black knights and dragons, girl But I will always come for you_