'ALEK! ARE YOU OKAY?' LOUSHKA thought in concern, having felt him jump in the saddle. 'What happened?'

'She gave me a dead leg.' Alek, still laughing sent her the image.

'Didn't one of your cousins use to do that to you?' Loushka thought, bemused.

'Yes,' He gasped for breath after all that laughing.

KEEPING A WARY EYE ON Alek I clung to the pommel while he caught his breath. He leaned toward me, looking at me from under dark brows. 'Catherine,' he ...