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1 " Lia let out a low growl and moved her arrow to the base of his fat throat. "What do you think, Gabi? Would you like to see these nuptials through?""Not this day," I said"How about on the morrow?" Marcello asked, smiling and lifting my hand to his lips. "If I am your groom?""Hold that eHarmony thought," Lia whispered in English. "We gotta get out of here. "
― Lisa Tawn Bergren , Cascade (River of Time, #2)
2 " They shall never believe that a young lord of Siena would march directly into their camp.""And if they do?"He gave me another small smile. "Then my beloved lady shall have to come and rescue me.""Us," Luca corrected him, slurring his words now. "Have to rescue us."He adjusted Luca across his shoulders. "Stay with me, Luca," he said sternly."Can't get much closer m'lord," Luca mumbled. "
3 " Lia aimed, shifted and waited, watching one man peek out time and time again. She let her arrow fly anticipating his next peek at us and it pierced his eye.“Okay that’s just going to make ’em mad ” I said.“Three hundred and ninety-two ” she said to Luca tossing her braid over her shoulder and taking aim again.“Saints in heaven ” he said to me rolling his eyes “how much deeper in love can I yet fall? "
4 " Together, come what may. "
5 " I was hedging. I had no idea about what would happen if I told him something about the future.Like that Siena would face a plague within a few years. And that Florence would eventually rule them.What would happen if I let such things slip? All sorts of time/space continuum stuff might come crashing down. Or maybe it wouldn’t.I should’ve watched more Star Trek as a kid. "
6 " Guys are just scared of beautiful girls, Dad said.Sure, Dad, I said. Only ugly girls go to dances.The right one will come around, he promised.You’ll see. "
7 " I’d been brief with her, not wanting her to stress over me and Lia. I mean, she knew I’d narrowly escaped death in freeing Lia from Castel o Paratore, but she didn’t know all of the details. That, like, I’d almost been killed a dozen times. You just didn’t tell your mom that kind of thing—not if you were trying to keep her from rushing you off to some safe tower. "
8 " He smiled at me with that grin…and I floated across the floor to him, my handsome prince. "
9 " He moved to kiss my forehead, my eyes, my cheeks, my lips for several long, searching moments.Right then, I wished we could stay together. Forever. "
10 " Money. Man is always motivated by money, my dad said to me once. It can work for us, or it can enslave us. Even when we have much, we feel like we need more. No matter how much we have. "
11 " Well, hello there,” I said, “you big, beautiful overgrown passageway.” I looked over to Lia. “Let’s confuse ’em a little. "
12 " Twelve men in Forelli gold galloped past in pursuit, so fast I barely caught a glimpse. I edged out, torn between crying out to them and hesitating to interfere in a chase. But as I stepped forward, I knew that the man at the front was Marcello. "
13 " And then we were gone, cascading back to the future. "
14 " I smiled. He had come for me. Saved me. How many times would this man save my life? "
15 " If I were a lucky girl I would have won the lottery or something. Maybe I had, I thought, staring dreamily at Marcello. "
16 " I reached up and touched his face, feeling the appealingly masculine stubble there. "