He Faked A Limp For Six Years To Avoid Marrying Me

In Hollow Creek Clan, a man must bring down a full-grown boar to claim his bride. For six long hunting seasons, Talen Reed has come home empty-handed and Shay Voss has waited, sitting through every other couple’s wedding feast, even kneeling at her kinfolk’s doors to beg a spare boar for the man she loves.

Then, outside his cabin, she overhears the truth. Talen never failed at all. The finest tracker in the clan lands has been faking his limp for years and throwing every hunt so he’d never have to marry Shay, and could stay close to gentle, city-bred Elowen instead. “She’s too soft-hearted to leave me,” he tells his kin. “She’ll wait around no matter what.” Every soul in the clan knew. Shay was the only fool kept in the dark.

So when Talen hobbles over, begging for just one more season, Shay looks the liar in the eye and shakes her head. Six years of waiting ends today and the clan that mocked her is about to learn exactly who they let go.