A Forbidden Love by Alexandra Benedict

Author:Alexandra Benedict [Benedict, Alexandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Historical Romance
ISBN: 9780061743849
Google: tdDgug55tmwC
Amazon: B008G0IW56
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2006-10-30T11:00:00+00:00

Back inside the Lion’s Gate, at the far end of the corridor, an inquisitive Luther Gillingham remained standing, regarding the tall silhouette of Lord Hastings disappear from view.

When Emma eventually made her way back down the hall, he grabbed her by the arm, demanding harshly, “What did the viscount say to you?”

She jerked her arm free. “He only asked how much it would cost to spend the night with me. But I don’t think he is of any great value to us.”

She flounced off, Gillingham glaring after her. But he was no longer convinced it was Emma’s breasts that the viscount had found so enticing.

Chapter 18

“Y ou’ll beat the skirt to shreds.”

So startled by the interruption to her solitude, Sabrina released said skirt, and then clambered after it before it drifted away downstream. By the time she made her way back to her washing spot, she was met with a fit of giggles.

“You frightened me,” Sabrina accused.

“Did I?” chuckled Gulseren, as she came to squat beside her cousin. “You are too sensitive. What is the matter?”

Sabrina went on with her work, smacking the skirt against the rock, trying to break up the stubborn mud clustered around the hem. “Nothing’s the matter. I’m distracted, is all.”

“Hmm. I wonder what’s distracting you.” Gulseren tapped a finger against her chin. “Did an elf scurry by, flooding your ears with tales of hidden gold? No? Let me think. I know! A dancing bear was just entertaining you! Not that either? Well, what else could it be…?”

“Don’t tease me, cousin. You know the wedding is on my mind.”

“Ah, the wedding.” There was a giggle by her ear before Sabrina felt a pair of slender arms coil around her neck. “I forgot all about the wedding. The very wedding that will soon make us sisters.”

Sabrina looked over her shoulder at her cousin with a helpless smile. She already loved Gulseren like a sister, but becoming a wife would bring the two of them even closer together, and not just in terms of kinship, but in friendship as well.

Gulseren was already married, and Sabrina had never really understood what life was like for her cousin, her existence being one of lonely freedom. Now she would. In three days time, she too would become a wife. No more would she sit idly by and listen to the women talk about things she knew nothing about.

Soon she would join in those talks herself, finally able to understand a sacred part of gypsy life.

“Your father is worried about you, Sabrina. He thinks you’re not behaving as a proper bride should.”

There was a sudden pang in her heart. Her nerves threaded to form a taut knot in her belly. “Why does he think that?”

“Because you have been very quiet of late.”

“I’m always quiet.”

“Yes, but you are also a bride, and brides are never quiet.”

The knot in Sabrina’s belly tightened. She had tried, she really had, to mask her gloomy mood from her father. She’d stayed away from the man as best she could, so he wouldn’t notice her sullen features.

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