Hart's Desire (Pirates & Petticoats Book 1) by Chloe Flowers

Author:Chloe Flowers [Flowers, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical Romance
Publisher: Flowers & Fullerton
Published: 2016-05-16T18:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Keelan snatched another handful of Sham’s mane and clutched it until her knuckles whitened. Her hair again had gained freedom from her bonnet and whipped around her face and neck, impairing her vision. Seized by panic, a new horror gripped her stomach when she realized she had dropped the other rein in the fight to maintain her seat.

She now had no way to control Sham or slow him down.

“Stop!” she screamed. “Whoa, Sham!”

Sham continued at a thundering gallop, with Keelan powerless to stop him. The stallion seemed to sense her fear and react in kind. She choked back a panicked sob and again shouted the command to stop, but the rising wind swallowed her voice. The furious storm-chased rain pelted her face in a blinding assault. Her insides churned with cold dread; she gripped Sham’s mane as tightly as her trembling fingers would allow.

“Keelan!” Landon’s shout was close and she cast a terrified glance over her shoulder. His horse was only a length behind. Orion soon pulled up alongside Sham.

Landon leaned to the side, reaching toward her. His arm shot out and wrapped around her waist like a steel band, plucking her off Sham’s back like a rag doll. He pulled her sideways across his lap; she impulsively wrapped her quaking arms about his neck and buried her face against his shoulder. Tears threatened and she tried to close her mind to the vision of the toppling tree or of her, crashing head first to the ground. Landon’s arm remained wrapped around her, thank goodness.

The swirling wind dipped and danced about them and the rain, like small stones, stung their flesh. Landon reined his horse to a soft canter, then a light trot, and finally a walk before he turned from the path. His arms tightened about her and she numbly heard his voice, low in her ear.“You’re safe, Keelan. I have you.”

The words passed her lips before she had time to think, “Landon, please don’t let go of me!”

“I won’t let you go, love. I promise.”

Her shoulders were quaking uncontrollably, and she fought to take a deeper breath. A crash of thunder shook the ground, and another bold streak of lightning split across the heavens. Blinded by the flash, disoriented by panic, she threw her arms up to shield her face. Her entire body shook with racking, hysterical sobs. The rain’s nearly horizontal attack was lessened by the huge pines which made up most of the forest on either side of them. With a low curse, Landon grasped her wrists and forced her arms away from her face so she could see him.

“Keelan! Look at me. You’re safe.” Landon scowled then slipped his hand behind her neck and pulled her face to his. His mouth crashed into hers with the same fierce intensity of the storm raging around them. A shock coursed through her body as if a bolt of lightning had struck her. Unconsciously, her fingers curled around the wrist of his hand cupped firmly at her nape.

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