A Storm of Pleasure by Brisbin Terri

Author:Brisbin, Terri [Brisbin, Terri]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, General, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 0758235186
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2010-10-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Gavin stood and collected their garments from where they lay strewn over the ground. He needed to avoid her astute gaze as she studied his reaction to her words…

And to the sounds they’d both heard.

Oh, he’d heard it before—the laughter, the whispering, even his name being spoken in the circle of stones—but never as clearly as he had this day. That no one but Katla had ever heard it was important in some way, but he did not know how. Did he dare to trust her with knowledge that no one else knew about him? Could she help him discover more than he’d been able to learn alone?

He retrieved the sack with their food and the ale skin from where he’d dropped them. When she finished dressing, she took the things from him and laid out their meal. Gavin still did not meet her eyes, busying himself with tying his trews back in place and putting on his tunic. Unable to avoid her any longer, he decided that he needed to try to trust someone.

“My parents found me here, in this very place,” he said, accepting the piece of hard cheese she held out to him. Sitting down next to her, he watched as she took in what he’d said.

“You were a foundling?” she asked. “Here?”

“Aye. Before she died, my mother, the woman I called Mother, told me that on a late October night they were awakened by a stranger at their door. A young woman, my mother told me, one so pale she thought her ill, asking my parents to come here quickly. By the time my mother woke my father, the woman had disappeared.”

“Was she your true mother then?”

Gavin took a swallow of the ale and shook his head. “I think not. My mother said she was too young to have borne a child. My father wanted to go back to sleep, but my mother urged him out of the croft and along the path until they got here.”

“’Tis a wonder wild animals did not get to you first.”

“That is not the strangest thing. My mother told me that all along the way, their path was brightened by strange lights that traveled along with them. Though it was the dead of night, they had no trouble finding their way here.”

She paled then, as he had when his mother spoke of that night. “And you were here? In this spot?” She glanced around them at the small rise on which they sat.

“Aye. There was no one else here, so they took me to their home and raised me as their son.”

They had been good parents teaching him his father’s trade—farming—and never making him feel like the unwanted foundling he was. Even when the power that now controlled his life began to show itself, they never turned their backs on him. No matter what others thought or feared, he was their son and they loved him.

“When did they die?”

The question was not so startling, but the soft touch of her hand on his arm was.

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