Highlander Taken by Juliette Miller

Author:Juliette Miller [Miller, Juliette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Historical, Fiction, General, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9781472015600
Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon, Limited
Published: 2013-06-07T11:30:44+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

I WOKE IN the night. A sharply defined ray of purple moonlight illuminated a square of the stone floor. Dull orange embers glowed.

It had been a week since we had claimed the turret as our own, and the space was now filled with our belongings, which were still in a state of disorder.

The room was warm. The fire burned from the logs Kade had stacked it with some time before.

I noticed that my husband was seated in a chair, asleep, slumped over the table he had claimed as his desk, his quill still grasped loosely in his hand. I could hear his deep, even breathing, which was never harsh or loud in his sleep. He looked uncomfortable, with his big body laid heavily across the table, his head resting on his outstretched arm, his hair askew.

I rose, and I went to him. I hoped he wouldn’t wake in a state. He’d been so aggravated by the unfolding reality of our clan’s appalling disorganization—understandably so—and he’d hardly slept since his arrival. At least when he did, I thought, it could be in the comfort of a warm bed.

I’d asked him once before about what he wrote in his books and letters, to which he’d given me a gruff reply. “Weapons designs, battle plans, tactics. Nothing you need to concern yourself with.” I knew he had dispatched at least one letter to each of his brothers in the days since we’d arrived at Glenlochie. Now the unrolled parchment of a letter was displayed, held down by the length of his arm as he slept. The tip of the quill had bled a small black smudge onto the top of the page.

I didn’t mean to pry, but the words jumped out at me before I could stop myself. There was much my husband wouldn’t discuss with me, about his difficulties during the days, when we were apart. I knew of his conflicts with the men of our army—as illustrated by the confrontation earlier with Aleck and the others. Only the day before, he had returned to our chambers bloodied from a duel; he’d only mentioned this when I’d asked him about it several times. And I knew from his grim expressions whenever I saw him during the days that he spent much of his time seething, or wishing he was anywhere but here. I wanted to learn more about the secret workings of his mind. Justifying my intrusion as a genuine bid to support him, if I could just better understand how I might, I began to read.

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