A Spy at the Highland Court by Barclay Celeste

Author:Barclay, Celeste
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Historical, Romance
Publisher: WolfeBane Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2019-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

Isa awoke to a knocking at her door. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and pushed her hair away from her face. She pulled on a robe as she approached the door.

“Who is it?”

“It’s us,” Ceit’s excited voice carried through the door.

Isa pulled it open, and Deirdre, Ceit, and Elizabeth surged forward.

“What will you wear today?” Elizabeth’s excitement was contagious, and Isa broke into a grin.

“Hopefully, not much.” Isa’s eyes grew to the size of saucers as she clapped her hand over her mouth. She could not believe she had let her most private thought slip out.

“Good lass,” Deirdre chuckled. “But before that, we can’t have you walking about the keep in naught but your skin. I don’t think Sir Dedric would appreciate that. I’m fairly certain he would be like Magnus, and gouge out the eyes of any man who dared breathe in your direction.”

“You might be right. He was very adamant that there wouldn’t be a bedding ceremony.” Isa looked around at the other three women and hoped they would be able to offer her some reassurance that a crowd of people would not force their way into her matrimonial chamber to observe the loss of her virginity.

“None of us can speak to that. We, uh, all handfasted before we went to the kirk.” Elizabeth spoke softly. “There wasn’t much use in a bedding ceremony once we were wed in the church.”

Isa looked at the three women in front of her, and not one of them had a look of remorse.

“You’re fortunate to be Highlanders,” she grumbled.

The others laughed before Ceit embraced her.

“You’re wishing you’d thought of that last eve, aren’t you? We saw you slip off with Sir Dedric.”

Isa had no idea what to say. She had grown close to the other women, and she had listened as they spoke about some of the more private aspects of being married, but they had respected the fact that she was a maiden and not spoken too vividly. She had questions she wanted to ask but was far too embarrassed to bring up.

“You shall wonder how you two will ever fit, but you will.” Ceit grinned, and Isa nearly choked. “I’m assuming you haven’t seen a man’s, well, manhood before. You will wonder how your bodies could ever come together. After all, Sir Dedric is rather larger than you.”

Isa swallowed before nodding.

“I think if we’re going to have this conversation, you should call him Ric. It seems rather stiff to use his title.” As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she flushed a bright red.

“I should rather hope it’s stiff,” Deirdre chimed in. “Isa, what do you know of the marriage bed?”

“I know the mechanics, but I will confess that I worry about how it will happen. I know it can be enjoyable for both the man and the woman, but I don’t know how to make it enjoyable for either of us.” Isa could not bring herself to look at the other ladies, but they swallowed her into their embrace.

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