“You would allow me another wife? Allow me to touch another woman when I cannot touch you? You are willing to stand to one side for the rest of our lives?” Dougless swallowed. Cattle raiding was the national pastime; success conferred distinc- tion, for cattle were in many ways more important than babies. Jango, protect her till I do. Because of the strangeness of her speech, it had taken him a while to understand that she was begging money from him.
If he was so in love with his wife, why was he jealous when another man looked at her, Dougless? And why was he fooling around with Arabella? “Nicholas?” she said softly. Nicholas looked horrified and bewildered at the same time, but he took the boy, and after a moment he even smiled at him. Sure, America had rapists and mass murderers and drunk drivers, but Elizabethans had plague and leprosy and smallpox. Girls from surrounding farms, and some- times their mothers, too, had looked at him with affection, but he had so desperately yearned for c
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