A Dangerous Seduction by Jillian Eaton

Author:Jillian Eaton [Eaton, Jillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Chick-Lit, Fiction, Historical, Love Stories, Romance, Women's Fiction
ISBN: 9781521062500
Amazon: B01N74Z6R0
Publisher: Bay Horse
Published: 2017-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

She managed to catch up with him a mile down the road. He had dismounted and led his horse to a stream to drink. Both man and equine were crouched down alongside the shaded bank, the horse with his head lowered as he thirstily gulped down the cool, refreshing water and Owen sitting on his heels with his back to the road.

“I am going home,” Scarlett called out, a frosty bite to her tone even as she secretly willed Owen to turn around. Of course he did nothing of the sort, stubborn man that he was. Gripping the horn of her saddle with one hand she turned Fancy in a circle with the other. “Did you hear me? I said I am–”

“I heard you.” Uncoiling his long, lanky body, Owen stood and scowled at her over his shoulder. “The entire bloody countryside heard you.”

How did he do it? She wondered silently. How did he look at her with such yearning one moment and such utter loathing the next? Were his feelings truly so conflicted? She knew he was still attracted to her. He may not have said as much in so many words, but she wasn’t blind. She’d seen the way his pulse had quickened when he’d touched her cheek.

Oh, he wanted her all right. Every bit as much as she wanted him.

He just did not want to want her.

“We need to talk about what happened seven years ago. If you would just let me explain–”

“I know what happened. I was there.” Even from a distance she felt the coldness of his gaze. It raked across her skin like ice, leaving her chilled to the bone. “You made your choice, Scarlett.”

“But I made the wrong one!” Her frustrated shout startled a cluster of sparrows that had been pecking at seeds on the side of the road. In unison they flew up in a whirlwind of feathers and Fancy, having always been predisposed to a flighty nature, leaped forward and then spooked to the side. Had Scarlett been focused she would have been able to keep her seat, but her attention was not where it should have been. When Fancy went right she went left, spilling headlong over the mare’s shoulder.

The fall wouldn’t have been horrible – a bruised ego, nothing more – if her foot had not gotten caught in the stirrup. But it did, and instead of tumbling clear of Fancy’s hooves she slid directly beneath them, releasing a sharp cry when her head struck the ground.

Dimly she heard Owen shout her name. He was yelling something else, but she couldn’t hear what it was above the roaring in her ears. Her hands and elbows scraped painfully against the road as she twisted this way and that, struggling in vain to both evade Fancy’s iron shoes and free her foot from the stirrup.

The mare was prancing in place, caught somewhere between her training and her flight instinct. All it would take was one solid blow to the head for Scarlett to be seriously injured or worse.

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