Highland Treasure by Lynsay Sands

Author:Lynsay Sands
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2021-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

It was pain in her back as something pressed against her that woke Elysande from a dead sleep. Instinctively shifting forward to escape the pain, she pressed up against Rory’s back and glanced over her shoulder. She was just able to make out Tom’s outline in the faint light cast by the embers of the fire they’d enjoyed before retiring. He’d rolled toward her in his sleep, bumping her back. It made her wonder if that wasn’t the reason she’d ended up on top of Rory each morning, an effort to escape Tom bumping and paining her back.

Sighing, she lay there for a minute, debating what to do. Her back had still been fine when they’d stopped for the night. She’d considered applying some more liniment anyway before going to sleep, but then Rory had suggested it, and she’d known he would insist on doing her back for her, so she’d said it was fine and lay down to sleep. She hadn’t wanted his help . . . not when he was so grumpy, and she was still confused about the feelings his helping her the first time had caused her.

Even now, Elysande could almost feel the warm tingling that had raced through her when his hand had moved along her side and brushed against her breast. She’d never experienced anything like it before and had been shocked, but she’d also liked it and the excitement it had aroused in her.

Elysande had held still after that, hoping he would do it again, but he’d quickly spread the liniment over the rest of her side, and then headed back to camp as if nothing had happened. That made her suppose the touch had just been a part of his spreading the liniment and he hadn’t experienced any of the tingles and excitement she had. He’d also been short-tempered by the time she returned to camp, and had stayed that way the rest of the day. So, when they’d stopped and he’d suggested more liniment should be applied, she’d shook her head and said, no, she was fine.

She was paying for it now though, and the question became, did she really want to crawl from her warm spot on the fur and traipse through the cold to apply more liniment? Especially when she couldn’t reach the better part of her back?

Aye, Elysande decided when Tom shifted and nudged her again. Fortunately, it was the undamaged side of her back he brushed against this time, but it might not be next time. Holding her breath, she eased up onto her elbow, trying to figure out how to escape the center of the nest without waking everyone.

“Is it yer back?”

Elysande glanced around to see that Rory was awake and peering over his shoulder at her. When she nodded, he was suddenly moving, and she couldn’t help noticing that he didn’t seem to have any trouble getting to his feet without disturbing anyone. But then it looked like Inan had left a good deal more

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