Heart of the Eagle by Lindsay McKenna

Author:Lindsay McKenna [McKenna, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488745140
Publisher: Mills & Boon Series Special Releases
Published: 2014-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Nar’s scream echoed through the small valley as he swept up past where Dal sat on her gray gelding. She smiled in awe, as she always did, at the eagle’s beauty. This morning Nar was exceptionally playful. The sun was barely edging the mountains, sending streamers across the lush green meadow where she sat quietly on her horse. Dal was unable to still another kind of excitement threading through her. In another hour, Jim would arrive in his black Blazer, and their two-week odyssey into the back country would begin. She took an unsteady breath, recalling how alive she felt.

Dal’s gaze followed the graceful wheeling of Nar far above her, the eagle’s feathers a bronze color as sunlight struck him. That was how Jim illuminated her dark and distrustful heart. He touched her with life, she thought, resting her arm on one leg, which she had thrown around the saddle horn. Closing her eyes, Dal relaxed as the sun’s strong mid-May rays struck her, enveloping her in a warm blanket. After her return from Denver to the Triple K, she had had two weeks to mull over her burgeoning relationship with Jim. Two weeks…so long and yet, so short. Even Rafe had noticed the change in her as one of their conversations flowed back into her wandering mind.

“What are you doing?” Rafe had asked as he stood in the hall outside Dal’s unused bedroom.

Dal fluffed the pillow and threw the pink bedspread over it. “I’m going to try and start sleeping in my own room again.” She straightened up, pushing a few strands of hair away from her eyes.

Rafe leaned against the doorjamb, his arms crossed against his massive chest, a scowl on his features. “Is it time to push yourself like that?” he asked in a voice deep with concern.

Dal looked around her neat, feminine bedroom. She had been raised in this sunlit room, which had several windows on the eastern side of the house. It brought back Jim’s comment that all hogans faced east to welcome the sun. Well, she was going to welcome the light back into her life by trying to sleep once again in a darkened bedroom each night. And each morning, the life-giver of light would steal into her room to soothe away any remnants of her life with Jack. Tucking her lower lip between her teeth, Dal studied her brother. “Is there ever any good time to face something painful?”

Rafe grimaced. “You’re asking the wrong person. Life’s a pain.”

Dal sat on the edge of her bed, giving Rafe a compassionate look. “Eventually, that pain eases,” she whispered, wanting to help him somehow in his grief and loss. But Rafe allowed no one to help him.

“I suppose this experiment is Tremain’s idea?”

“He doesn’t know anything about it.”

Rafe’s mouth thinned. “He’s having one hell of an effect on you in a short amount of time.”

Dal ran her fingers across the organdy fabric of the spread. “Yes, he is.” She lifted her chin and met Rafe’s dark stare.

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