Sea Fire by Karen Robards

Author:Karen Robards
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Mystery
ISBN: 9780440221081
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Published: 1982-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

eleven

The setting sun, sending out one last vanguard of rays before retiring for the night, caught Cathy in its sights. The orangey brilliance was trapped in her bright hair, making it glitter like living fire. The Berbers, used to only dark-haired, dark-skinned women, visibly gaped. Jon, impaling Cathy with his eyes, was nevertheless aware of his companions’ reactions. Silently he ground his teeth.

“Who is this?” breathed the white-robed man at his left. Mustafa Kemal was his name, and he was the Sheikh’s trusted servant. Jon glared at Cathy one last time, then turned courteously to the speaker. As desperately as they needed the Sheikh’s help, it would never do to offend his man, and through him the Sheikh himself.

“She is my woman,” he said, his eyes meeting Cathy’s, daring her to deny it. She had halted uncertainly several paces away. Her eyes widened at his words, but for once in her life she was prudently silent.

“Very beautiful,” Kemal approved, while the other two Berbers nodded their heads in vigorous agreement, their eyes never leaving Cathy. One of them said something in Arabic to Kemal, and the other apparently seconded it. Kemal replied in the same tongue, then turned back to Jon.

“It is permitted that we touch?” he asked, his eyes gleaming darkly beneath the corded white headdress. Jon was nonplussed for a moment, then following the direction of their eyes, realized that they were referring to Cathy’s hair. He had known that if the Berbers ever got a glimpse of that golden glory they would be entranced, which was why he had ordered her to stay in the cabin. Damn her for a disobedient bitch, and damn himself for a fool! He should have known that she would defy him the minute his back was turned! Next time he would lock her in. But for now the only thing to do was brazen it through.

“Certainly. I will tell her what it is that you desire, so that she will not be frightened.” With a polite nod to Kemal, Jon detached himself from the men at the rail and took the few steps needed to bring him directly in front of Cathy. Standing with his back to the Berbers, he completely blocked her from their view. Cathy, looking up at him guiltily, was left in no doubt of his wrath.

“They want to touch your hair,” he hissed between tight lips. “And you’re going to let them. You’re going to cast your eyes modestly to the ground, and not look at them. And you’re not to speak. They’re used to a very different sort of female than you, and I’ll be damned if you’re going to offend them. Understand?”

Cathy didn’t much like his tone, or the hot anger in his eyes, but she knew that in this instance Jon had to know best. Already she had been disturbed by the intensity with which the strangers were regarding her. Moistening her lips with a quick flick of her tongue, she nodded.

“Good. Stay behind me.

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