My Broken Knight

Anne T. Thyssen Romance

“It has nothing to do with me,” I said simply.
She groaned, frustrated and stepped closer.
“So, you do not care I have to spend the rest of my life with an old man?” she asked.
“No,” I told her coldly.
“How can you say that? Do you not have a heart?”
No, I didn’t. It had been ripped out by a dark-haired beauty that had claimed it, only to rip it from my chest and stomp on it. So, no, I didn’t have a heart. I was certain only a hole remained there now.
"Do you not believe in love?" she asked.
I looked at the princess before me. A true beauty, yet what hid beneath the surface could be as ugly as the face of a toad.
"Do you?" I asked.
She smiled a beautiful smile. The sun's rays were getting caught in her golden hair and the wind slightly biting her cheeks.
"Of course," she said. "Even if I don't get to experience it. It is real. I have seen it. Haven't you?"
I thought over her question for a little while, before looking over her shoulder towards the little lake in front of us.
"Believing in love is like believing in magic ... It isn't real. It is just another fairytale for kids."
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William was a true believer when it came to the ways of the heart. He set off into a brutal war for seven years, the thought of his true love Vanessa the only thing keeping him warm in the cold northern kingdom Seeka. He promised to return and marry her, but when he finally does, haunted by the death of his friend and the horrors he had seen, Vanessa is already married. She broke his heart, telling him that only a lord was good enough for her. William swears off love forever, but what happens when he becomes the private guard to the beautiful princess Grace?
Grace is the only daughter of king Richard, ruler of Etheria. After the brutal war in the north he is forced to marry his daughter to an old king, who can bring the country back on its feet, but it means no true love for Grace. Only loneliness. Grace still has her heart set on love, but what happens when her heart starts beating for her knight Sir William?
*Book One*

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