Cates, Kimberly (42 page)

"I didn't want you to," Lion confessed. "Didn't want anyone to. I was so afraid of what you would find."

"I found something more beautiful than any dream I'd ever dreamed, Lion." She smiled, loving him. "And no one has ever had more practice at dreaming than I have."

Lion had learned to love. Her gallant, battered knight had broken the evil spell at last. And now he would teach another boy who needed love so badly.

Her heart nearly burst with joy as Rhiannon raised her lips for her husband's kiss, certain that in all the world of fairies and legends there was no greater magic than this.