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The thing about us hopeless romantics is that it doesn't take much for our alarm bells to ring and our red flags to fly around a potential mate. We smell romance the way a shark smells blood in the ocean, we don't need much to catch it, all we need is a clue.
Gabriela is sitting in a chair on top of one of the royal white horses. After hours of being confined inside the royal carriage, she decided to ride a horse for a change. She is risky because she leaves her out in the open, making it difficult for everyone to protect her, but she is a stubborn girl. Even though everyone tried to reason with her she almost made everyone lag behind and did what she wanted anyway. But watching her now, sitting confidently and proudly on her horse, I see it: a soft touch of her hand as the stable boy hands her the reins and a persistent gaze between them.
"Oh my God"
"What?" Travis whispers to me again.
"That is!"
"Who?"
"The mystery man!"
"Where?"
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"Maybe. But like I said in Blanca's office, there are only a few things worth fighting for and love surpasses them all""You are a pervert with substance," I scoff at him."No, I'm a desperate romantic"And instead of continuing to argue about it, we kissed instead.Night falls and the world around us changes. He and I sat shoulder to shoulder on a fallen log, watching in comfortable silence as the last rays of the setting sun bled into the slowly darkening sky, turning it into brilliant shades of burnt pinks and oranges with just a hint of purple. here and there. To say that it is beautiful is an understatement, yet no other word fits so perfectly.My head instinctively falls against his shoulder and his head rests softly on mine. When a gust of cold wind blows against the grassy mound we sit on, the temperature drops, making me shiver and fully aware of how we are still in the middle of winter. Travis's hand moves quickly to my arm and rubs it up
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The landscape is changing rapidly. The trees are spreading and separating even more. The river water that once roared and flowed in abundance has calmed into a harmless, bubbling stream. Even the sun, once pleasant on this cold January day, has now become a nuisance, overwhelming us and forcing us to shed layers of clothing. The desert is coming and it will soon be too late. Once we get to the arena, the horses will be sent back to the governor's castle and exchanged for carriages from Japan, and there will be no more horses which means there will be no more "stable boy" means ... "Jane are you okay?" If the heat is affecting you we can stop. "I'm fine, Travis. I am worried because we are running out of time" "Do you want to talk to Gabriela again?" "No, with Damian" He raises his eyebrow at me. "You have told him what it is to fight for someone, now I need to tell him what it is to be fought." "Ok, how can I help?" "Is
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