02 Seduced by a Rogue

Author:Amanda Scott [Scott, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780446558563
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2013-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

How unfortunate it was that humans were such superstitious creatures, Mairi thought grimly. She sat on the top step, wedged into one corner, hugging the warm sleeping kitten to her chest and wishing her wool cloak were thicker. She wished, too, that she had never decided to escape or known about the wretched cavern.

“Such foolish wishes, Tiggie,” she murmured to her softly snoring companion. “But, oh, how I wish I knew more about this awful place!”

She had no idea how much time had passed since she had trapped herself, or even if morning had come yet, because the incoming tide had raised the water level high enough to plunge her into pitch darkness.

Meantime, she was cold despite the kitten’s warmth, and had been fighting a primordial fear of the dark. Until the noises of the water had stopped altogether, every thunderous roar, sudden slosh, thump, or mutter had made her shiver as if ghosts, demons, and boggarts roared or gibbered at her from secret lairs in the impenetrable blackness. But now, she was sure the water was still rising, stealing quietly up the stairs toward her, and she had no idea how high it would get.

Wondering next if spiders could tolerate the damp chill of the place, she decided sternly that she should turn her thoughts to pleasanter things. However, imagining herself atop Annan Hill, looking out at Solway Firth, reminded her only of how wild the Firth could grow in a storm.

She disliked storms—especially thunderstorms, unless the lightning and noise were distant. But it had been overcast the day before, and she had seen clouds when she looked out at the moon. If the wee galley got caught in a big storm…

Tearing her thoughts from the weather, she considered what she would like to do to Rob Maxwell to pay him back for bringing her so far from home.

But thoughts of Rob abruptly took a different tack. She could see him in her mind’s eye more clearly than she had seen the stormy Firth, although his image was just as stormy. She had no doubt he would be furious to learn what she had done.

But she would endure his wrath, would even look forward to deflecting it, if only he would return quickly.

However, Rob was nowhere near Trailinghail, and she did not know when he would come. Also, she had given Annie leave to stay home and had left her own door open and the bed tidily made, hoping anyone who found her gone would think Rob had taken her with him. “And I have no doubt now that they will think just that,” she muttered. Her sleeping companion made no comment.

The plain fact was that Rob had left in the middle of the night, so no one was likely to inform anyone that she had not gone with him. It was even likely that no one would think to ask. Had she not seen for herself that Rob’s people did not express curiosity about much of anything their

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