People would talk. Alaric was certain that before the break of dawn, news of what had happened tonight would have circulated throughout the entire kingdom. As embarrassing as the whole ordeal was, he was in no mood to deal with the gossip. Let them talk if they wished; he had far better things to think about. The issue now wasn’t necessarily his tarnished image, or the fact that his woman had publicly displayed her interest in his godson of all people. Alaric had thick enough skin to have handled the backlash this scene would bring him. If Sabrina had been anyone else, he would have handed her over to Allen with a smile on his face. But Sabrina wasn’t just any other woman. And Alaric couldn’t let her go. He’d never been this nervous about losing someone before. He liked it better when hi

