His Conquest by Diana Cosby

Author:Diana Cosby [Cosby, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Historical
ISBN: 9781420109917
Google: 5VMcW1f4fmMC
Amazon: 142010991X
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Goodreads: 7980959
Publisher: Zebra
Published: 2010-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Heart pounding, Linet focused on Seathan standing but an arm’s length away, hands on his hips, his feet spread in a warrior’s stance, and his eyes burning hot. She clenched the embroidered bed covering, the delicately sewn coverlet a pathetic shield against this powerful Scot’s roving gaze.

Heat swept through her at the memories of his touch, his destroying kiss, and his muscle-carved body pressed against her. God help her if he touched her now.

She angled her chin and focused on the one man she could never have. “’Tis unseemly for you to be within my chamber without a chaperone.”

Dry amusement edged through the hunger on his face. “Odd you choose now to worry about impropriety. In the dungeon but days past, you cared not.”

“Your arrogance amazes me. Or have you forgotten that had I not freed you from Breac Castle, you would be dead?”

His jaw tightened. “I forget nothing, including the fact that you have avoided explaining why you would risk your life to save mine. Never have we met, neither are we related, and you are English.”

“And half Scottish.”

“Yes,” he drawled, “let us not forget your watered-down heritage as well as your unexplained reason for fleeing Breac Castle.”

The arrogant braggart! Eyes narrowed, she tugged the coverlet around her and scrambled to her feet. “You despise the English,” she said, her words curt. “For that I blame you not, but to dismiss my Scottish heritage is not only slander against me, but against my Scottish mother as well. Say to me what you will, but the latter I will not tolerate.”

His eyes bored through her, eyes that saw too much. They trailed over her, igniting fires of need wherever he looked, evoking memories of her dreams, in which he stood naked before her, then laid her upon his bed and slid into her with exquisite heat.

“I regret you believe that I would slight your mother, Scottish or no,” Seathan said at last, his deep burr echoing through the chamber. “That was not my intent. I apologize.”

His apology surprised her. Too aware of him, Linet stepped back. “I accept. You may go.”

His eyes again narrowed. “You dismiss me from a chamber within my home?”

“Dismiss you?” The arrogant toad! “You crept inside my room while I slept! Or do you intrude upon all of the single women’s chambers within your castle?”

Green eyes turned as black as the devil’s own. “Collect whatever is yours.”

“You will have to wait.”

“I—”

She angled her chin. “In case you have overlooked the fact, I am in an indecent state of dress.” As soon as she uttered the words, she wished them back. Seathan’s hard glare of moments before darkened, a potent reminder he was not only a warrior but a man.

A very virile man.

A man assured of his abilities.

A man confident he would always leave a woman satisfied.

Sweet Mary! “I meant…you will depart so I may dress.”

He stepped toward her as if a predator stalking its prey. “I will depart?” His gaze moved over her with excruciating, seductive slowness before pausing on her face.

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