Scottish Bride by Catherine Coulter

Author:Catherine Coulter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance: Modern, Scotland, Romance - Historical, Fiction, Inheritance and Succession, Large Type Books, Fiction - Romance, Nobility, Romance - General
ISBN: 9780786232161
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2001-01-14T23:00:00+00:00

"I don't know if I would make a very good vicar's wife."

"Nonsense. You are human, Mary Rose, delightfully so. Jealousy, anger, frustration--those are not bad things, they're just things that all of us feel because they're there to be felt. They cannot be ignored, at least not all of the time.

"You wish to know what I see when I look at you? I see a beautiful young woman. I am not blind. Looking at you delights me--your hair, your mysterious eyes, that wicked little smile of yours, and your nose, Mary Rose. It's straight and narrow and really quite a nice nose."

She was trying very hard not to laugh, not to fall to his knees, and weep her eyes out. "Tysen, stop it, just stop it."

"Oh, no. I also see great kindness in you, Mary Rose. I see no petty meanness in you, just caring. You have been alone too much. You have not been cherished. I also think that you feel things very deeply. Perhaps, someday, you will feel deeply about me." Oddly enough, at that very moment, he knew it was right to make this girl, a girl he hadn't even known existed a simple week ago, his wife. It was the thing to do. It was what he wanted to do. Then he nearly laughed at himself, at all his mental machinations, all his man's justifications. He also wanted to make love to her until both of them collapsed. He remembered vaguely the awesome desire he had felt for Melinda Beatrice when he'd been all of twenty years old and she was his goddess. He'd prayed for valiant deeds to perform to prove his devotion to her, but there hadn't been any.

The fact of the matter was, however, that his union with Melinda Beatrice was a very long time ago and they had both been so very young. He was a man now. He had tried his best then, but he'd been so ill-prepared. There'd simply been so much he had never experienced, had not known how to deal with--from his wife to all the people in his congregation. And then he'd been a father and Melinda Beatrice had died.

But things were different now. He was different in many very important ways. His children had changed him, made his life richer, given him more compassion, more patience. The many men and women in his congregation had changed him as well. He had tried to be a good man, a man to minister to them as he should.

But never before in his life had he comprehended the simple joy another human being could bring him, the endless warmth, the caring, the immense joy of the world. And the excitement of just looking at her, a smile on his mouth without his even realizing it. Now she had come into his life--so completely unexpected. She fascinated him even as she brought out every protective instinct he had buried deep inside. This quite pretty girl, who wasn't a girl anymore

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