Dragon's Knight by Catherine Archer

Author:Catherine Archer
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-04-14T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Throughout the morning, Aislynn felt Jarrod watching her from his stallion. She would not have given him the satisfaction of knowing that she noticed if he were Saint George himself. At the same time she could not help feeling that he had been quite disturbed by their brief exchange before leaving camp. He had looked…well…shaken was the only way she could describe it.

This did give Aislynn some pause, especially as she had only repeated what he had said to Sadona the previous day. She thought her understanding of his feelings would please him greatly.

It was no bother to her when conditions worsened so that simply traveling forward became a task that demanded her undivided attention. The road grew narrower and more rutted as they went on. To the right of them, the sea crashed insistently against the rocky shoreline.

It was midmorning when Jarrod halted his stallion and leaned up in the stirrups. He studied the road up ahead of what appeared to be a sharp bend in the narrow track. After a moment, he turned and came back to meet them.

Frowning, Aislynn halted her mare and watched Jarrod’s face as he dismounted and came back to stand at her horse’s head. His expression troubled, he pointed up ahead of them. “Come, I want you to see something.” If he had ever been upset with her, there was no sign of it now.

So amazed and curious was she by this odd remark and behavior that she forgot her own anger and took his hand when he reached out to help her down. Yet Aislynn was not unaware of the current that ran through her in the brief and distracted contact.

Jarrod made no sign of noting this.

Holding back a sigh of irritation with herself, Aislynn followed as he led her to the spot where he had turned back on the narrow road. She was aware of Sir Ulrick coming behind them.

What she saw when she peered around the edge of the bend in the rocks made her gasp.

The track no longer followed the brink of the water from here. The cliffs ran right along the edge of the sea here, and the path, which was too narrow for more than one person at a time, rose almost straight up, seeming to be cut from the rocks by some haphazard hand.

As she watched, Aislynn could see that the spray from the crashing waves had wet that ribbon-of-stone path. This road would surely be slippery at the best of times. She took a deep breath. “Dear heaven. It is no wonder that few people dare to journey here.”

Jarrod turned to her. “Precisely my own thought.”

She looked at him. “You are certain we have followed the directions correctly?”

Aislynn did not require the nod Jarrod gave to know that they had done so. It was only a deep desire for it to be otherwise that made her ask such a pointless question.

Sir Ulrick spoke from behind her. “You can not think to go on here, my lady.

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