Snatched by the Baron (The Baron and the Peasant Bride #1)

MALE POWER PLAY – JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS

WHEN THE BARON INVOKES HIS RIGHT TO THE BRIDE'S FIRST NIGHT...

It was late in medieval France when young and lovely peasant girl Alaina Duvre goes to marry a rich, old man her father has arranged for her for the promise of a hefty bride-price.

Unfortunately, the groom turns out to be a very disagreeable person, and her wedding day would have been the most miserable day of her life if the Baron has not passed by with his knights.

Witnessing her misery and seeing how cruel the groom is to her, the handsome and virile Lord Laurent Fabian Deschamps invoked his right to her first night to give the vineyard owner a lesson, and then rode off to his chateau with her.

Innocent Alaina is about to receive a most significant lesson, too – how to be loved by a man; for Laurent is an experienced lover and he knew how to seduce a woman into submission. Having inkling about how her life will be when she is brought back to her abusive, old husband, will she think the lessons a fortunate event?

Or will they be the worst things that can ever happen because she knows they will never be repeated again?

WARNING: erotic description of love scenes in the story... for mature readers only.

EXCERPT

“WHAT IS GOING on here, Puis-je savoir?” she heard the Baron asked her father, who now looked as pale as vinegar.

But his hasty explanations could not make up for the vehemence and righteous anger of the “wronged” Elliot. Her father looked very insignificant in his peasant church clothes as he stood beside the more opulently clothed Elliot, who cut him off even when he wasn’t even finished.

“They duped me! They were all into it all along! This is quite humiliating! I have paid a price and I get a plain peasant wife in return. This is a disgrace to my honor and they are the ones who did it, my Lord!”

“And what of you, ma bichette? Can you tell me what happened?”

She hadn’t known he had addressed her until her mother shook her again. Alaina looked up at the Baron without comprehension.

He was asking her, a woman, about a matter that only men in the family would discuss.

Was this a test? If she would open her mouth, would she be put to the guillotine for daring to speak to the Baron against her groom?

The Baron gave her a look that she could not dare believe as pity before he looked down at Elliot again. This time, his eyes were cold. How they could turn from warm to cold that easily or quickly confused her. She would not cross a man’s path when his eyes looked like that.

“Clearly, your bride is terrified. I arrived watching you shouting at her and if she hadn’t been shielded by her father, you would have hit her. I believe you do not treasure your new wife as befits her station and that you need a lesson about how to treat your woman right.... As lord of the manor and governor over your estate, I am invoking jus primae noctis, my right to your bride’s first night.”

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