Conveniently Wed to the Laird by Jeanine Englert

Author:Jeanine Englert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-11-02T17:49:30+00:00

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Deuces.

Ewan rubbed the back of his neck and ruffled his hair. If anyone had told him a week ago that he would find a woman to become his wife and burn with attraction for her as well, Ewan would have laughed aloud at them and sent for the doctor to have them checked for fever. But it was true. He’d felt more alive with Mrs Gordon in these last few days than he had felt in years. His steps faltered.

More alive than he had felt since losing Emogene.

While he knew he should be tending to his duties as laird this afternoon, all he wanted was to spend more time with Mrs Gordon. To learn what made her laugh, to know the secrets of her heart, the pain that had shaped her into who she was today. All in all, he was acting like a lovesick fool, and despite the terror that elicited in him, there was a small seed of wonder growing in his gut.

Could he have love like Moira and Brenna had and not be consumed by it? Was he doomed to a life of plodding along one foot in front of the other as laird, or could he also have happiness? Hell, could Catriona help him become a better man, be the laird he wished to be? She had a way of pushing him and challenging him that he admired, and yet she also possessed a directness that relaxed him.

He followed her down the hillside, watching her take those first steps onto the craggy shore. A smile played on her lips as she turned to him, her hair whipping in the breeze, the sun setting her face aglow. And wasn’t she turning into some other woman each day she stayed here? She was far from the tattered lass who didn’t dare make eye contact with him at the start of their journey in the carriage from Edinburgh to Glasgow. Each day, more light came into her eyes and her spirit, as if she too had been hidden from the world and perhaps from herself.

Together, they seemed to be finding one another. And it was equally compelling and terrifying.

He reached the shore and stood alongside her on the grey rocks that filled the coastline. For minutes they just looked out at the loch in silence, water rolling in along the shoals, the rhythmic ebb and flow of the small tide and smell of the water filling his senses.

‘It is incredibly peaceful here,’ she said.

‘Aye.’

‘I have few memories of my childhood,’ she offered, staring out into the dark waters. ‘But the strongest one is of being on a beach. I can smell the sea, feel the warm sand between my toes and the sun heating my arms and face. I remember laughing with my siblings, being teased by one of my brothers, and then chasing him and the waves along the shore.’

‘That is all you remember?’

‘And being swallowed by the waves, desperately trying to reach the surface for air, and failing.

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