Lori Benton by Burning Sky

Author:Burning Sky [Sky, Burning]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

That was how Neil found them, coming in to retrieve the bark containers Willa meant to store the jerked meat in. He’d hoped she’d be asleep, just not in the lap of Joseph Tames-His-Horse, who looked at him with a faint smugness in the set of his mouth.

“I tried to lift her.”

Neil crossed the cabin. “Dinna try it again. You’ll undo all my work to patch ye up last night.” He squatted to get his arms under Willa, grunting as he got his knees under him and pushed to his feet. Her long body sprawled across his sagging arms.

“Not exactly dainty, is she?”

Joseph grinned at that, rubbing his legs as though they’d lost feeling.

Neil eyed the ladder on the far side of the hearth. There was no hope of his climbing to the loft. “I’ll put her in my bed.”

Not till he’d wedged them both through the doorway to the back room did it strike him how Joseph might interpret that intention. He was the one grinning as Willa’s head lolled and her eyelids fluttered open. Her voice slurred with fatigue. “Wha …?”

Neil grunted again with the strain as he lowered her to his blanket roll. “You’re going to sleep if I have to tie ye hand and foot, that’s what. Hush now, and do as I bid.”

Amazingly she did, going limp even as he drew his blanket over her. He knelt, looking at her by the light from the papered window. After days in the fields, the sun had lightened her hair. It flowed like bright hanks of silken thread—brown, copper, and gold all spilled and tangled.

He lifted a strand and brushed it against his lips, before hurrying a little guiltily from the room.

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