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STEFAN
WESTMORELAND
He was a knight as well
as a brother to Royce, so he has been with him all
throughout. He was the one who kidnapped Jenny and Brenna,
thinking that it will greatly help Royce get their enemy.
He followed Royce’s commands and was very loyal to him.
She jumped as the door
to her bedchamber was flung open and crashed into the
wall. “Get your cloak,” Stefan Westmoreland snapped
ominously, “you’re coming back to that field with me if I
have to drag you there!”
“I’m not going back,”
Jenny countered, turning to the window again. “I have no
stomach for cheering while my husband batters my family to
pieces, or –“
Stefan grabbed her
shoulders and spun her around, his voice like a savage
whiplash: “I’ll tell you what’s happening! My brother is
out there on that field, dying! He swore he’d not raise
his hands against your kinsmen and, the moment they
realized that during the tournament, your precious kinsmen
massacred him!” he said between his teeth, shaking her.
“They tore him to pieces in the tournament! And now he’s
jousting – Do you hear that crowd jeering? They’re jeering
him. He’s so badly injured, I don’t think he knows any
more when he’s been unhorsed. He thought he’d be able to
outmaneuver them in the jousts, but he can’t, and fourteen
more Scots have challenged him.”
Jenny stared at him, he
pulse beginning to race like a maddened thing, but her
body was rooted to the floor, as if she was trying to run
in a nightmare.
“Jennifer!” he said
hoarsely. “Royce is letting them kill him.” His hands bit
painfully into her arms, but his voice broke with anguish.
“He is out there on that field, dying for you. He killed
your brother, and he’s paying –“ He broke of as Jennifer
tore free from his grip and started running…
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