On A Wild Winter's Night (The O'Byrne Brides Book 4) by Miriam Minger

Author:Miriam Minger [Minger, Miriam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: O'Byrne Brides
Publisher: Walker Publishing
Published: 2016-11-08T22:00:00+00:00

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“So you guessed during the journey that I was with child?”

Duncan pressed a kiss to Maire’s lips, her breath a soothing balm to his troubled thoughts.

How he loved this woman! He drew back from her and nodded, which made her sigh softly.

“I wanted to surprise you…to tell you on Christmas as my gift to you. Now here it is Christmas and I have no other gift—”

“You’ve given me everything I could ever want, woman. Your heart. Your love. And now a babe on the way. I need nothing more.” Duncan tucked the blanket more securely around her shoulders. “Go to sleep. Dawn will come soon enough and we’ve a long ride ahead of us.”

Maire sighed again, but if she felt any disappointment that they were going to leave the O’Byrne stronghold first thing in the morning, she didn’t voice it.

Instead she gazed into his eyes and said softly, “Thank you, Duncan. You’ve given me the most precious gift, too, seeing my family again. I know it wasn’t the easiest thing for you…but you’ve made me very happy.”

Emotion closed Duncan’s throat, and all he could do was nod and press another kiss to her lips.

He had always considered himself to be a hardened warrior…but his sweet wife could fell him with a word, a glance. And now she had thanked him when they both knew—God’s teeth, how he wished it were otherwise!—that it was unlikely they would ever return to Glenmalure or that Maire would ever see her family again.

He rose from sitting beside her on the bed and dimmed the oil lamp atop the table, feeling almost sick at that moment for the grief that would cost her.

To not see Triona again or Niall and Nora…or Deirdre and the twins born this night. Why did the world have to be such a harsh place of strife and division…when all Duncan wanted to do was bring light and happiness to Maire’s eyes?

So his agitated thoughts assailed him again, Duncan quietly leaving the bedchamber so Maire could get some much needed rest. She still looked too pale, though who wouldn’t be after witnessing the trauma of the twins’ birth? Yet he knew that Maire would not have wanted to be anyplace else, so great was her love for Triona—

“Damn it all!” Duncan’s vehement curse echoed in the outer room filled with its feminine trappings that bore witness to the gentle life Maire had led before he’d met her. He hoped she had fallen asleep already and hadn’t heard his oath. Meanwhile, he was certain that he would not be sleeping at all tonight for the thoughts plaguing him—

“What the devil?” A sudden pounding at the door made Duncan glance instinctively at his sword belt.

“Duncan, it’s Ronan!”

Ronan? Still fully dressed, Duncan made his way instead straight to the door. The last thing he needed to do was greet his brother-in-law, however quick to anger, with a weapon in his hand. He pulled open the door…coming face-to-face with the last person he expected to visit this late at night.

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