McKinnon's Royal Mission by Amelia Autin

Author:Amelia Autin [Autin, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Mara hummed a joyful little Zakharian folk song from the eighteenth century to herself as she gathered up her books. Another school week was over, but that wasn’t why she was so happy. She was happy because she had the whole weekend ahead of her...with Trace. Tuesday and Wednesday this week had been Alec’s days on duty, and Thursday and Friday had belonged to Liam.

She’d only seen Trace occasionally since Monday—at dinner, walking around the grounds and once in the stables when she went to check on Suleiman. He had scarcely said a word to her, nothing that couldn’t have been overheard by anyone in her household. And when others were around his face wore that professional appearance she knew now was a mask hiding his deeper feelings. But the few times they’d been alone his eyes had been alive with emotion. And the emotion she wanted to believe she saw reflected there was...love.

This weekend—Saturday and Sunday—were Trace’s days to guard her, and she had plans to spend as much time as she could with him. She knew she probably couldn’t convince him to take her back to his cabin, although she would gladly go there if he would. She just wanted to be with him—to listen to his voice, to watch the way he moved with that silent, graceful power, to read what he felt for her in his gorgeous blue eyes. Doing nothing with him was better than doing anything with anyone else.

“You’re happy,” Liam commented casually as Mara slung her computer case over one shoulder, picked up her briefcase with one hand and her purse with the other, and headed for the door of her office. But there was nothing casual about the way Liam’s eyes swept the corridor as he walked out of her office a step ahead of her, his jacket unbuttoned for quick access to his gun. “Starting to feel more at home here?”

“Oh, yes,” she assured him.

“The other day Alec said it seemed as if you weren’t homesick anymore. That true?”

She allowed herself a tiny smile. “Everyone is so nice to me here. My students—most of them try so hard any teacher would be pleased and proud. My fellow professors treat me as if I am truly one of them. You and Alec take such good care of me. And Trace...” Her tiny smile grew.

“Yeah. Alec and I, we noticed.”

Mara shot a quick glance at Liam’s face, wondering exactly what he meant by that statement, but all she read in his expression was the same casual interest. Liam and Alec cannot know, she reassured herself. No one knows except Trace, and he would never tell anyone.

“So how’s the book coming?” Liam asked her as they walked to the faculty parking lot.

She sighed a little. “It would be easier if I could write it in Zakharan,” she told him with a droll smile. “Equations are the same in any language, but the text...the right words will not always come to my mind to convey the exact meaning of what I wish to say.

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