Enemy of Mine by Red L. Jameson

Author:Red L. Jameson [Jameson, Red L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Time Travel, Historical
Goodreads: 23481673
Publisher: Kindle Edition
Published: 2014-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

“Where is our book?” Will asked Private Lukas who was propped up on gray pillows and blankets.

The hospital was bleak with only a few oil lanterns to light the room along with the afternoon’s faded yellow rush of sunlight from an open door. The Private’s broken arm was in a sling, close to the lad’s thin chest, covered in a muslin shirt. The covering may as well have come off, for the fabric was all but translucent. Will noticed how thin the Private was, mayhap not owed to a lack of food, but to his age, since he was merely a large child. Lord, why did it seem the army recruited younger and younger men during times of crisis, like now? Will didn’t think Lukas was even ten and seven. He wished he could whisk the young Private far from the war, far from what he’d probably already borne witness to—the savagery of battle.

Private Lukas smiled widely through Will’s dark thoughts. “Can’t read our book, sir. The doctor has it. So I suppose you’ll have to tell me about Lady Ferguson.”

“Do I?” Will couldn’t help but grin back.

The Private cleared his throat and looked down at his limp hand. “I...I’ve heard she’s the most handsome woman the doctor has ever seen.”

Will arched a brow.

“An-and she is a wicked good shot. Pardon, sir.”

Will laughed. “Her aim is most amazing, yes.”

“Do you find her bonny?”

Will lost his grin, finding that talking about Erva’s beauty brought about a serious edge to his face, his soul. He wasn’t grim as he had been about Private Lukas’s condition. No, he was rapturously serious, as a priest would be in a cathedral. He didn’t mean to worship her or put her on a pedestal, for he knew how utterly human she was, had seen it when she’d run from him last night. That vexed him now. Granted, at first he’d thought he had charged at her too fast, too furiously. But now...he couldn’t help wonder if something else was interfering with her wanting to be with him. Perhaps she was over thinking things. Then again, mayhap he wasn’t thinking enough.

Will nodded. “She is so beautiful...it makes me stop breathing sometimes when I catch sight of her.”

The Private leaned further into his pillows, looking as if, had he the ability, he’d stretch both hands behind his head. With another wide smile he looked up at the ceiling of the army’s hospital, Will thought, to fantasize about beautiful women, as Will had been prone to do at his age. Ah hell, Will still loved to do, especially so when considering Erva.

Glancing at the roof himself, Will noticed how shoddy of a building it was. It seemed that army hospitals became rickety all too fast, as if the buildings themselves groaned and decayed under the weight of the death, dying, and suffering. In the large chamber the Private vacated, there were many men lying on straw pallets, or cots, if one was lucky, like Lukas. The room where

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