Seduced by a Rogue by Amanda Scott

Author:Amanda Scott [SCOTT, AMANDA]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FIC027050
ISBN: 9780446558563
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2010-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Waking from a doze in pitch blackness and abject terror, Mairi heard the sound of lapping water so near that she knew the sea was creeping closer. She was in what she had decided was the more comfortable of the two corners near the door.

The kitten had been in her lap but was not there now.

She had no idea how long she had slept. But surely, she thought, this was the same incoming tide she had heard crashing about below her for a long hour or two before falling asleep. The same thunderous noises that had accompanied its surging in would surely have awakened her in its ebb.

Wanting to know the worst, she shifted position enough to feel carefully for the step below the one on which she sat.

Finding it cold but still dry, or as dry as it ever was, she bent sharply forward to feel below it and nearly lost her balance. But the next step was dry, too. Below it, the next was damp. Moving one foot to it, she leaned forward again, expecting to find the sea with her fingertips but finding only the damp, shivering kitten.

As she began to straighten with it trembling in her hands, it squirmed and dug claws into her bodice, trying to climb higher.

Water surged then, soaking Mairi’s feet and the hem of her gown. Snatching her skirts up, she scrambled blindly up the steps and reached her corner, gasping.

Forcing herself to concentrate on calming Tiggie, whose claws still hooked tight in her bodice, she wondered if the sea just might swallow them after all.

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