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NINETY-FOUR | THE PRONGHORN TRIBE (PART 2)
My head span as I clambered to my feet. I was looking forward to going home to our little cabin later that evening. Knowing that I still had the most important trial to come was somewhat daunting, but I knew that, no matter what, by the end of the day I’d be tucked up in bed with the man I loved.
The man who was keeping secrets from me. I shook myself. That wasn’t true. It was more likely than not that Samyak had simply forgotten to fill me in on one tiny, probably insignificant piece of information. He’d probably frozen initially when Violet had been taken, and then jumped into the fray and been injured then.
My head injuries were making me think irrationally; I was sure of it. I forced my thoughts of Samyak, even the nice ones of us eating dinner together in our cosy kitchen, to the back of my mind. I had to focus.
I’d found the dandelions, and by some stroke of luck it seemed that my fall
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