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“There she is!”
Letty hissed a curse that would have made Adam blush. She kicked her heels into her horse’s flanks and bent low over the beast. The road was close, and as soon as she reached it, she gave her horse more rein, allowing him to run even faster. The thunder of pursuing hooves behind her was like the rumble of a distant and terrifying storm. If they caught up with her, all would be lost.
Letty studied the road ahead, afraid that her horse would stumble and roll, but she couldn’t slow now, not for anything.
She chanced one look back and saw at least two men on massive horses behind her. Those brutes could keep up with her on an open road, but perhaps not in the woods. It would be a risk to stray from the path on terrain she wasn’t familiar with, but what choice did she hav
