Captured by Your Kiss

Author:Jen Holling [Holling, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780739431115
Amazon: 0743438043
Goodreads: 120051
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2002-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

He was picking at her on purpose and she knew it. She would get her way. She always did. She made a face at him.

“Are you hungry?” she asked, tying her hair back with a leather thong. “There’s stil some bread and dried meat left.”

He pul ed at the thong, sending her hair cascading over her shoulders. She wore it down for him sometimes, when he was insistent. He would be insistent today.

She scowled at him and tried to snatch back the thong.

“I want to look at it,” he said, holding the thong out of her reach.

She sighed and pul ed their smal leather bag to her, searching for the food. He toyed with the curling ends of her hair, thinking about making love to her beside the stream.

She straightened. “Patrick.” Her single word was infused with so much fear and disbelief that he didn’t even look at her expression but twisted around to look behind him. Three men on horseback rode toward them, stil some distance away, but coming fast.

Patrick was on his feet, hauling Mona up with him as she hastily threw on her cloak and gathered up their meager belongings.

“Maybe they’re not after us,” she said.

“I’m not taking any chances. Let’s go.”

They mounted and splashed across the burn, pushing the horses to a run. They raced across the heather, but it was soon clear they’d made no mistake, the men were after them. There was nowhere to hide—hil after hil of heather and gorse and not a tree in sight. Even the jagged gray rocks jutting out of the ground were not big enough to conceal two horses. Though they drove the horses hard, they couldn’t keep the pace up much longer. Their horses were fatigued and not of the same caliber as their pursuers’ mounts. A cottage lay ahead. No smoke rose from the thatched roof, and the yard was deserted.

An unfamiliar fear had fal en over Patrick. It had been a very long time since he’d been truly afraid before engaging in combat. This new concern was for Mona, not himself. He’d lived through a great many battles—but he’d always failed to protect those he cared about. And so he’d stopped caring

—it was easier that way, since the loss was inevitable.

At the cottage, he dismounted. “Get inside and bar the door.”

“What about the horses?”

“Forget the horses!” Their mounts already wandered away, toward a patch of green behind the cottage. “They’l not go far.”

Mona stared at the approaching men. “I can’t just leave you out here.”

He forced her toward the door. “Go, damnit! I canna protect ye when ye’re out here in the open.”

She clung to his hand. “Don’t die,” she said fiercely, her mouth set in an uncompromising line.

“Aye, my lady.” He pushed her inside and pul ed the door closed. He was relieved to hear her block the door. “Check for any other ways in and block those, too,” he yel ed.

He turned as their pursuers slowed, realizing they’d cornered their prey. Patrick drew his sword.

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