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 Yes, yes, he did. Tania spoke quickly. Too quickly.  He s just come back to tell everyone he
found his mates. But he s leaving now. Right, Amory?
 Congrats, man. The man smiled and pumped Amory s hand up and down in a tight handshake.
Amory looked around the young man s neck. No heartstone. He drew in a calming breath.  You re
Went, aren t you?
The youth nodded, his head bobbing out a nod in his enthusiasm.  I am. He rocked back on his
heels.  I hate to be rude, but I m shipping out in a half an hour to search mines along the border, and
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I have to talk to Tania before I leave.
 Yeah. Amory folded his arms across his chest.  You want to talk to the woman you re pledging to
come home to. With Etruscan vows.
Tania s eyes widened, then pleaded with Amory.
Amory ignored her, giving his attention to Went.
 Damn straight. The man grinned, showing even, white teeth.  You told him? After you asked me
to keep it secret from everyone?
And there it was. Amory pushed down the rolling of his stomach.  Let me just take a minute of
Tania s time to tell her good-bye. Then, she s all yours. He grabbed her by the elbow and escorted
her to the front porch. Only after they stood in front of the door, did Amory ask,  Why?
She gritted her teeth together.  Why what?
 You know what. Why deceive me? Deceive him? How many men have you pledged to? Made the
vows with?
 It doesn t matter.
 It does. It damn sure mattered to him. He d left his mates of his own free will to come back and
do the honorable thing, only to find out the woman had acted less than honorably.  You have them all
keep it a secret. All your men. So they won t talk to each other and find out they aren t the only one.
Amory had kept his pledge to Tania secret from everyone in the village, even his own fathers. The
only ones he d talked to about their relationship had been Bren and Zelda.
A breath rushed past her lips in a long gasp.  Look, I have my heartstone already. But, no mate. My
mate has to be out there somewhere. Maybe in this village. If I make every man promise to come
back to me when they go to retrieve their stone, maybe two-thirds will come back. It increases my
odds of finding my own mate. She rolled her shoulders in the air.  I need a mate, Amory.
 So the pledge is about checking to see who your mate is? And who s not your mate? How could
he have been so stupid? So blind?
 Yes, dammit. I want my mate. My parents are gone all the time, but won t let me go anywhere. At
least this way, I have a chance of finding mine. You don t understand what it s like living with no
hope. She coughed, the sound light.  The Etruscan vows are outdated. Daddy says so. But they
work well to get men to come back.
Oh, she had no idea of living without hope. He d lived without a heartstone for all his life, but the
last few days.  The men you pledge to think you feel something for them. And, because of that, they
feel something for you.
Another light laugh escaped her lips.  No one can truly love until they have a whole heart.
 But you do have your missing piece. That had been his logical explanation for how the love
pledge they d made could work. She had her heartstone and loved him. Therefore, they must be true
mates, even though he didn t have his. He d banked his whole theory on that before he d met Zelda
and Bren.
An illusion.
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Everything she d done had been an illusion.
She hadn t cared anything for him. Didn t care for the man waiting for her in the kitchen. Didn t care
for any of the men she d propositioned and told of her affection for.
All she wanted was for them to come back to her, instead of moving on, so she could make sure
their stones didn t glow.
He rubbed his face with his hands.
 & have my heartstone, it doesn t mean that I can fall in love. The stones have to match, to glow.
So, just because I had mine already, it didn t mean anything.
But she d said she d loved him. And he d pinned all his hopes and dreams on that emotion, partly
because she d pledged it and partly because she already had her heartstone.  So you didn t care for
me like you said? It was all a ruse to get me back here after I d found my heartstone. And he d
acted like she wanted. Damn him for being such a rube. He d been so naïve.
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