Highland Bride by Amanda Scott

Author:Amanda Scott
Language: ron
Format: mobi
Publisher: Warner Forever
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Bab, too, expected capture at any moment. Drawing rein beside the Fox, she looked at the tumbling river thirty feet below and gasped at the awesome sight.

“Faith, sir, what can we do?”

His gaze met hers, and she saw that his eyes were dancing. With a chuckle, he leaned toward her, and before she had any idea what he meant to do, he snatched her from her saddle and spurred the stallion forward.

Surprise left her breathless and was all that kept her from screaming as the great black horse plunged off the cliff toward the raging waters below. She clutched her arms around the Fox’s neck and buried her face in his cloak, certain that she was about to die.

“I trust you can swim,” he murmured, and she heard laughter in his voice.

“Not in water like that!”

She did not know if he heard her, because the freezing waters closed over them just as she finished the sentence. Her mouth full of water, choking and unable to breathe, she struggled madly, but his strong arm held her, and he did not let go. Her skirts billowed up as they submerged and then tangled around them and threatened to drag them back down again when he stroked for the surface, but she felt him kick hard, and suddenly her head was free of the water.

She came up coughing and sputtering, but he held her high enough so that she could catch her breath, and she saw with relief that they had already traveled a good distance from the cliff.

She glanced at her companion, hoping for at least a glimpse of his face, but the wet mask clung to it, revealing nothing but its shape. They were moving with the swift current, and he had evidently managed to retain his grip on the stallion’s reins, because the great horse swam nearby.

“Try to catch hold of his saddle,” the Fox said.

She clutched him tightly, reluctant to let go.

“Easy, lass,” he said gently.

“You are mad,” she retorted.

He chuckled. “In truth, I canna argue with that. A wee voice in my head that keeps telling me daftish things said, ‘Jump,’ and I did. ’Twas mad indeed, but it saved us. Go on now, reach for him.”

She swallowed hard, trying to breathe normally and to think clearly. The great horse, which had seemed so near only moments ago, looked miles away now, surely too far for her to catch hold of him before the current swept her away.

Calmly, as if he were finding it no trouble to swim in the turbulent water while holding her, her companion said, “If you miss or cannot hang onto him, do not try to swim to shore. Just let the current carry you until it eases enough to let you swim. Then begin angling a little at a time to your left.”

“I … I don’t know if—”

“You can. A slight bend lies ahead, and if we’re lucky, we’ll make landfall there. If we miss it, the river bends more sharply and widens beyond.

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