Moon Burning by Lucy Monroe

Author:Lucy Monroe
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2011-02-26T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

No real ire in his voice, in point of fact, Earc looked amused to no end by his friend’s clear predicament.

Verica finally released her laird, patting his arm for good measure and giving him a watery smile. She turned to face Earc. “You and Barr have brought life back to this clan. I was merely saying thank you.”

“It didn’t sound to me like you were saying anything at all,” Earc teased, the humor more pronounced now in his light brown gaze.

Verica frowned, seeming to come to herself. “What are you doing in my room? ’Tis unseemly.”

“I am your mate, ’tis most seemly. Barr’s presence, however, is open to misinterpretation.”

“No, it is not.” Barr’s glare dared his second to disagree.

Earc merely lifted one dark brow.

Verica shook her head. “For goodness sake, you two are like small boys the way you poke at each other.”

“I have not been called small in more years than I remember,” Barr said, somewhat bemused.

Earc just shrugged. “I have spoken to the priest. Father Thomas can perform our marriage before the evening meal.”

Verica stumbled back, her eyes going wide, her heart rate suddenly the pace of a running wolf on the hunt. Or maybe the hare being hunted. “What did you say?”

Earc approached her, but Verica stepped back and to the side.

He stopped, his brows drawing together, the scent in the air going dangerous from one heartbeat to the next. “You heard me.”

She shook her head in denial.

He nodded, taking another step toward her.

“No.” Sabrine no more understood the other woman’s panicked tone than she had the tears earlier. To this point, Verica had shown nothing but a rather rattled acceptance of Earc’s claim. She’d been grateful, even, that the strong warrior had stepped in to save her brother from an unfair challenge.

All of Earc’s affability disappeared. “Aye. I claimed you as my mate this morn, and I’ll not have any challenge that claim because I have not followed up with human tradition.”

Verica’s eyes rolled like those of a horse not yet ridden when facing a rider for the first time, and she bolted from the room.

Earc swore.

“It appears you need to catch your mate before she makes a break for England.”

Earc gave Barr a sour look. “No need to get insulting.”

Barr shrugged, but a smile played at the corners of his mouth.

Earc shook his head and spun on his heel before taking off after Verica with a wolf’s speed.

Barr’s gaze on the empty doorway, he mused, “I think their mating may be a stormy one.”

“Only until he realizes asking is more effective than ordering when it is between mates.” Though Sabrine could not say for certain that’s what had Verica running. The woman’s scent had turned too much like that of prey for Sabrine to understand what had been going through her mind. Surely she knew that she was safe with Earc.

Or was she?

Verica was raven as well as wolf and Earc was fully of the Faol of the Chrechte.

“Is it now?” Barr’s lazy drawl

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