Highlander Ever After by Paula Quinn

Author:Paula Quinn
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2018-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Adam climbed the stairs to his chambers. He hoped it was far enough into the night that Sina would be asleep.

He’d left the castle and his aunt hours ago. He’d had a drink at Will’s, fought off Mary, and climbed Bla Bheinn for some peace and quiet.

It hadn’t helped.

He didn’t need Maggie to tell him that Sina had to go back to London. He knew it. But he wasn’t doing it for the king. He didn’t give a damn about the throne. George was getting his daughter back. Let him be happy with that.

It was his wife’s love for William that pricked him in the heart.

He didn’t need to read the letter again; he’d read it enough to remember her words. How could he ever forget them?

He clenched his jaw, refusing to care. So she was beautiful. He knew plenty of beautiful women. He’d never tried to win any of them or suffered the weight of having to make them happy—as he had for his wife. He could have stayed away every night and continued to live the way he had before her. But the weight had become light at the first sound of her laughter.

Damn her for making him try…and for making him like it.

He opened the door, ready to fall into his damned chair and get some sleep. The aroma hit him right away. He’d forgotten.

The candles by the bed and the window were lit. Sina sat propped up in his bed in her nightdress, surrounded by all the heather he’d picked for her earlier tonight and laid on their bed.

“Where have you been, Adam?”

Why did she have to look so appealing with her golden hair splashing down her shoulders like liquid sunshine, her cheeks slightly flushed, and her eyes a bit puffy?

“That’s nae longer any concern of yers,” he replied.

She looked around at the heather. “I…I don’t understand this.”

He laughed, pulling his léine over his head. “What dinna ye understand, lass? That I’m a damned fool?”

Her eyes raked over his bare chest and belly. She looked angry for some ridiculous reason. He considered taking off his breeches to truly infuriate her.

“D’ye want to see more?” he asked on a throaty whisper, his smile going dark.

Her lips parted and her face went pale. “I’ve…I’ve already seen too much to…”

“Too much to what?” he asked when her voice faded off.

“To forget,” she confessed softly—like silk across his ears.

He stopped in the middle of kicking off his boots and stared at her. What was she saying? Why was she bothering to say it?

“You are formidable,” she breathed, lifting her fingers to her throat. Her anger was gone. Now she appeared shy and untried. She looked away, presenting him with the silhouette of her delicate profile in the candlelight.

Like one caught in the frenzy of a storm, he fought to keep from going to her and taking her up in his arms. How had she succeeded in doing what no other woman could?

“You already know that,” she murmured, keeping her gaze on Goliath, “which is why you undressed.

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