Two Can Play
Then the wedding itself, the way he had cradled my face at the altar when the vows were done, tilting it up like I was something precious, and kissed me while the whole world watched.
It was my first kiss, my very first, and my heart had skipped so hard I felt it in my throat. Jasmine had spent days calling Sparrow handsome and sexy and I had nodded along without really hearing her, because handsome men had never done anything for me except make my skin crawl.
But in the morning, when I stood in my wedding dress with Scarlett behind me and saw him walking toward us, I took my time looking at him for the first time in my life. I had been blind. Sparrow was the most beautiful man I had ever se