By Love Enslaved by Phoebe Conn

Author:Phoebe Conn [Conn, Phoebe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Historical, General, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780446355933
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 1989-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

170 I PHOEBE CONN

nothing but wait anxiously for Erik to return with the answers.

When Erik arrived home, he swung down oflF Shadow and walked over to greet the women seated beneath the oak that shaded a good portion of the yard. With forced nonchalance he included Berit in the brief greeting he gave her mother. Then he bent down to kiss both Dana and Freya with his usual show of affection.

"As you can see, I have come to no harm," he assured Freya with a wide grin.

Before Freya could repeat the cause of her unfounded hysteria, Dana offered her explanation for the stained kirtle. When Erik appeared puzzled, she rose gracefully and took his hand. "Come with me. Til show you the garment is an old one you no longer wear." Just as she had earlier with Berit, Dana led him away from the others before he had a chance to object.

Once they had turned the comer of the house and were out of both sight and earshot, Erik pulled his lovely half sister to a halt. "It doesn't matter what the others think, but I want the truth, Dana. I remember Brendan was wearing an old kirtle of mine the night the foal was bom. He made quite a mess of it, as I recall, but he washed it and he's wom it several times since."

Because she knew Erik would recognize the garment in question, Dana didn't even attempt to convince him it was another that had been found. Instead, she demanded the unquestioning loyalty she had always shown him. "You must accept the tale I told as the tmth, Erik, even though you know that it isn't. I have done all that I can to help you and Berit. What I ask in return is your silence."

Erik frowned slightly as he tried to make sense of her request, but the obvious conclusion was so outlandish he reftised to believe it. "If Brendan was here and left his kirtle behind, he must have come to see a woman. That he is fascinated with you is plain whenever you two are together, but surely you would never sneak out to the stable to meet a thrall." He paused then, waiting for her to

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