CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Sebastian pushed his fresh horse, and himself, as hard as he dared when he rode back to the crossroads. He’d ridden through the night, not caring about the risk of predators on the road of either the animal or the human kind, not caring about the risk of his horse missing its footing in the dark. By this point, he was so far behind Sophia that he needed to make up any ground he could.
Would she be happy to see him when he caught up to her? The fact that she’d sent him the wrong way suggested that she wasn’t pleased at the prospect, but Sebastian would make her see that he was a different man from the one who had pushed her aside for fear of what his family would say. He would show her that he loved her, and that she had nothing to fear from him.
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