Edith Layton by The Cad

Author:The Cad
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Bridget smiled as she came awake. Early light filtered through the windows. It was a fine morning. Finer, because for the first time in her life she’d woken to find a man in bed beside her. Not just a man—her husband. Not just her husband—her Ewen.

She spent a few minutes watching him sleep. His hair was growing and beginning to curl around his ears, which were flat to his head and very shapely, she thought with pride. His eyelashes were really quite long, she noted. A faint dark beard outlined that hard jaw. Now that he was utterly still, she could see that half his attractiveness came from the spirit that animated his face, because while it wasn’t unappealing, it wasn’t classically handsome in any sense. Just enough to make her lose her senses, she thought, sighing with happiness.

She passed a few more glad moments merely watching him and then began to wonder if she ought to wake him—nothing too presumptuous, just a feather touch, really, just to see if he wanted to—Madwoman! she chided herself. You have a day of hard traveling ahead, and a night of lovemaking behind you. Up with you. and off you go.

She started to slip out from under the covers. A long arm snaked around her waist and held her back.

“Done watching over me?” Ewen asked, a smile in his voice. “Or did you take a good long look and decide to leave such a bad-looking fellow?”

She fell back into bed, laughing. She knelt over him, holding herself up on her hands and looking down at him, her hair falling to form a curtain around his face. “Wretched man! Do you never sleep?”

“I don’t dare. I might snore, and you might leave me,” he said comfortably.

“I might leave my senses, you mean. But I have to get up now. We have such a long trip before us. Another thing I never thought to ask,” she said in chagrin. “Is it two days or three to get to your father’s house?”

But now he was staring into her eyes. “Gray in the dark, silver at dawn—you have the most astonishing eyes,” he murmured.

“Well, I’m glad of it, but I don’t see them much,” she said, dismissing his compliment to get at the facts. “How far must we travel today, Ewen?”

“How far? To the convenience and back, to the dining table and back—that is, if you really feel you have to get out of this bed at all,” he said, brushing a kiss along her brow.

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