Desire’s Prize by Stephanie Laurens

Author:Stephanie Laurens
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: 0
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Later, he rolled, taking her with him to their sides.

They fell asleep, locked in each other’s embrace, the beat of their hearts united, their bodies still joined.

CHAPTER 12

Rising excitement pervaded the long column as it got underway the next morn. As they marched through the day, the spires of Gloucester materialized through the haze.

Leaving Montisfryn to his lieutenants, Eloise spent the hours ambling along the column, scanning the wagons, noting the children, some ragged, others less so. Their mothers looked harried, tired; even the craftsmen looked worn down. As Montisfryn had said, the train was composed not just of fighting men able to take care of themselves; it was a community very like that of a castle.

The midday meal was a scrambled affair taken while the train slowly forded the river Frome. On the far bank, Eloise sat her mare and watched, increasingly critical. Time and again, she opened her mouth, sage advice on her tongue; time and again, she closed her lips, the words unsaid. She had no right to order, to interfere. Yet the temptation positively itched. Finally reformed, the column lumbered on toward the commons east of the town.

Excusing herself, she rode back to check on her patients. She’d already spoken with Sir Eward; the commissary had blinked, twice, but when she’d asked if anything was amiss, he had quickly denied it and had agreed to find her a milch-cow, cereal, and turnips when he went to market the next morn.

Reining in by the first of the four wagons carrying the unwed women and their offspring, Eloise was pleased to see the sick girl, Jill, upright, with a little healthy color in her cheeks.

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