Highland Princess by Amanda Scott

Author:Amanda Scott
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Medieval
Publisher: 0
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Lachlan’s thoughts were following a similar track, but much as he would have liked to take her right there on the ground with the hushing of the rain in the trees to accompany her moans of pleasure, he knew Hector would strongly disapprove of any great delay, if only because they risked angering MacDonald.

He had explained that he wanted a chance to speak with Mairi in private, even to take a few moments’ pleasure with her, but as much as he would have enjoyed lingering, he needed time to study MacDonald more before he decided his best course for winning his prize. To jeopardize that for a few kisses and cuddles, or even more, would be daft.

Recognizing that her fervent response boded well for any other liberty he might take, he nonetheless understood tactics as well as strategy, and knew he’d do better to bide his time. Therefore, with reluctance, he ended the kiss, held her close for a moment, and then loosened his embrace to look into her dark eyes as he said, “Tell me what you heard Niall and your father say.”

She sighed and said, “I feared you’d not heeded me, because you only let me tell you what Niall said. His grace said our caring for each other changed nothing, so he said what if you took my maidenhood—might that not prove troublesome?”

“The man is a menace! What did his grace say to that?”

“That it would make no difference, that Alasdair need only lock me up until he was certain any babe I had was his. He’d still enjoy all the benefits of having married a princess of the Isles. What are we going to do?”

“I must think, that’s all,” he said. “Just leave it to me.”

“But it concerns me, too. I don’t know why you always think—”

“It is a man’s business to plan and make decisions about the important things in life, sweetheart. You must know you can safely trust me to do that.”

“But I don’t want to! I want to know what you are thinking and to tell you what I think. I have opinions, sir, and a brain that works perfectly well.”

“And you are shivering,” he said, kissing her again. “Let us see who won, and then we’ll go down to the hall fire so we can get you warm again.”

She glowered up at him from under her eyebrows, but he knew the ways of women and ignored the sour look, urging her to the target to collect their arrows and hoping she would not be too disappointed when she saw that he had beaten her.

She was not disappointed at all.

Her arrow sat dead center on the mark.

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