Kiss Across Swords (Kiss Across Time Series) by Cooper-Posey Tracy

Author:Cooper-Posey, Tracy [Cooper-Posey, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781927423899
Publisher: Tracy Cooper-Posey
Published: 2013-05-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

They had five wagons, three of them empty of everything but wooden barrels, which they used to make a large protective semi-circle on the other side of a huge set of sand dunes that would protect them from the worst of the night winds. The horses were strung out on lines behind the wagons and a guard set.

Brody defied normal security precautions and found a location for Taylor and him to sleep away from the rest of the camp, outside the wagon ring. He built a fire for them. Taylor spread her saddle blanket. That would be her bed for the next three nights.

She stripped the mail from herself and plucked the sweat-soaked undershirt from her chest. Then, unable to stand it any longer, she pulled the shirt off, too. Then the leggings.

She unbraided her hair and rubbed her fingertips through the stressed roots with a sigh.

Brody sat watching her with a half-smile as he tended the building fire. “I would give anything to have a camera right now.” His smile faded. “I know why you took it all off. I wanted to every day when I was first getting used to it. But you’re sleeping in it, Taylor. I mean it.”

She grimaced. “At least let me air-dry the undershirt, first.”

He nodded. “We can wait that long. It’ll only take a few moments in this climate.” He picked up the undershirt, walked over to the nearest wagon and spread it over the side to dry. He came back at a slightly faster pace, hooked up her tunic from the sand where she had dropped it and tossed it to her. “I’d put that on,” he suggested. “Veris is coming.”

She struggled to throw on the tunic, suddenly all thumbs.

Brody grabbed the hem and hoisted it over her head. She managed to push her arms through the sleeves as he yanked it down over her body. She was still pushing her head through the opening when she heard Veris say, “Your guard said to come straight through.”

Taylor pulled all her hair out of the neck opening and brushed it out of her face. Veris stood about ten paces away on the other side of the fire.

Brody turned to face him. “That’s because the guard has standing orders to let you pass at all times.”

“I see.” Veris crossed his arms. He was watching her adjust the tunic. “No matter what I interrupt?”

“That’s right,” Brody agreed easily.

Taylor dropped her hands to her sides. The tunic covered everything it needed to. There was no way it was going to look like anything but a potato sack on her. It was what it was. She gave up and turned her attention back to Veris and Brody instead.

“You stopped speaking this morning,” she said to Veris. “You were going to say something, but then you looked at Alexander and stopped. What was it?”

Veris licked his lips. “That is why I am here.” He came closer to the fire, but stopped on the other side of it. He looked at Taylor again.

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