Brigand by Sabrina York

Author:Sabrina York
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-04-13T23:00:00+00:00

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Something woke him deep in the night. He’d been in the arms of a delicious dream so it took him a moment to come fully awake and recall where he was. Violet had rolled away so he reached for her…and found nothing but warm blankets.

Ewan shot up and glared at the empty spot on the bed. He raked the cabin with a furious gaze. There was little light, only a slight glow from the embers of the fire, but he could tell she wasn’t here. She’d gone.

With a plaintive roar, he sprang from the bed and pulled on his braes. He saw at once that the lamp was gone as well. Fuck.

He’d told her in no uncertain terms. She was not to run from him.

He hoped to God she hadn’t been gone long, that the sound of the door was what had awoken him.

He ran outside and scanned the tree line, his heart thudding painfully in his throat. He’d only just found her. He couldn’t bear to lose her again. He couldn’t.

And that terror raging in his breast? A panic far beyond that of a captor defied. He didn’t dare scrutinize that.

He saw the light in the distance, flickering like a bobbing star. He set off toward it at a dead run. How dare she. How dare she? Fury and exhilaration and the bitter aftertaste of dread twined together in his gut.

It did not take him long to catch up with her. His night vision was good. He skirted the fallen logs and leapt over gullies and ruts with ease. Wayward branches were no match for his resolve.

She was in sight within seconds.

She glanced over her shoulder and saw him coming. She let out a little cry and started to scamper away, in another direction. There was no hope for her. No way she could outrun him. Not with her short legs, the hampering of her skirts.

He captured her easily, looping an arm around her waist. He hefted her off her feet, turned around and, pausing only to pick up the lamp, which she’d dropped in that headlong fruitless flight, towed her back to the cabin.

She kicked and squirmed and pummeled him with tiny fists. “Beast!” she bellowed more than once. As though it was the only word she could think of.

When they came to the door, she hooked it with her grip and tried to stop him from taking her farther. He pulled her free with ease and dumped her onto the bed and glowered at her.

She was a sight. A glorious sight with her hair all a’muss, her bosom heaving, her lips parted, her eyes ablaze. She perched on the mattress, clearly poised to run again, glaring at him.

“I told you.” A gruff, feral snarl. “I told you not to run from me.”

“Go to hell, McCloud!”

He wasn’t sure what infuriated him more, her defiant expression or her words. Or his blood was simply running high. But the provocation she presented was more than he could resist.

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