Emerald Embrace by Shannon Drake Heather Graham

Author:Shannon Drake Heather Graham [Heather Graham, Shannon Drake]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Medieval
Publisher: 0
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

INTERLUDE

Laird of Creeghan

Since she had come to Castle Creeghan, since that very first night, he had known that she was living a lie.

But what she wanted and why she had come, he couldn't say. Sometimes the suspicion and the accusations lay open and naked before them. And sometimes they hid them and politely danced around them . . .

And sometimes . . .

Sometimes the wanting had gotten in the way. He thought himself so hardened, so jaded. He hadn't thought that a woman could get through to him, any woman. But she had. And he wished he didn't know the things he did: that she couldn't possibly be the woman she claimed to be. That Lady St. James had died in Richmond, soon after her husband.

And so he had known. From that first blustery and tempestuous night when he had swept her up onto his bay, he had known that she had come ... as a spy, as a thief . . . as a lie. But from the first moment that he had seen her, seen the sweep of her lashes over the liquid blue dazzle of her eyes ... he had known, too, that he wanted her. The intrigue and her beauty and the sweet sound of her voice haunted him in his dreams.

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But he was living a lie himself.

Creeghan was his, and the responsibility was his, and even the death, if it came to it, was his. He belonged to rugged tors arid cliffs; he had been born to the wind. She did not belong. And yet, she had come from the war-torn Confederacy, of that he was certain. She had to have learned something of hardship.

So what was she? A gold digger, a fortune seeker? Despite her angel's face and flaming hair, her soft smile of innocence, was she a harlot or a thief?

Aye, she was after something.

Something she believed to be in the castle, something that she wanted badly enough to risk her life to obtain.

What?

He intended to find out.

She played him for a fool time and time again. He had listened to her lies. But he had let her slip through his fingers.

No more.

Tonight . . . tonight, he had her. Here. In his bedroom. Tearing apart his very bed.

And still, she somehow seemed the innocent, rather than the deceiver. She was dressed in white. In a long white gown that was edged in fine lace, beautiful. Soft, whisper-thin fabric that molded to her form, that enhanced and teased at the lush secrets of her body, secrets he had just begun to discover with his touch. She stood there elegant, as her hair waved and cascaded down her back. It touched upon the shimmering blue of her eyes and shadowed the finely chiseled loveliness of her features. And the light teased over that white gown, darkening the proud rise of her breasts and swirling around the haunting shadow at the apex of her thighs. And even as they stared at one another, her chin rose, and he felt the temper rise within him as well as the passion.

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