Soldier by Catherine Lloyd

Author:Catherine Lloyd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: medieval erotic romance, medieval romance, romance novella, medieval christmas romance, steamy historical love story
Publisher: Writewood Creations

Chapter V

THE SOLDIER his head slowly as if to deny it. “That isn’t possible. You were—I saw your flow. You were having your monthly bleed.”

“The blood was for another reason. I was a virgin. There is no need to look cast down, my lord. I gave myself to you that night for my own reasons. Perhaps it was to conceive this child. I do not regret what we did—do you? What do you mean to do with us, Broderick?”

He was about to answer her when a loud pounding at door stopped him.

Tess froze and met Broderick’s copper eyes. He pressed a finger to his lips and handed her the sleeping babe. “Lie down, put the cover over you and do not make a sound,” he said in a low whisper.

“Lord Broderick! What has happened? We heard you cry out.”

His man, Davey.

Broderick pressed his hand over the cut on his shoulder to staunch the flow of blood. He was weak from shock but he had been wounded before; he knew the spell would pass.

“Broderick! For God’s sake, man, answer me else I break the door down!”

He hurriedly pulled the embroidered robe over his nakedness, hiding his bloody wound, and flung open the door. “Have you never heard a man climaxing inside a woman before? I am fine, you miserable ass! What do you think—that I should be murdered in my bed by a slip of a girl?”

Davey snorted and peered into the room. “Where is she now?”

“Asleep in my bed, where else should she be?”

Broderick joined the man in the hall and closed the door behind him, silently praying that the babe would not cry out.

“I might’ve expected it, but even I could not credit you with fucking the wet nurse! You’re as randy as a goat. Here is a coil! We’re for it now—”

Broderick cut him short. “What ails you man? You’ve seen me bed a girl before. Spit it out for I am in the middle of something.” Blood from his wound was dripping down his side and about to splash on the stone flags.

“A piece of intelligence has come our way from a noble who switched allegiance after Lord Harald’s arrest. Lord Deward had been presented to Lady Tess as a suitor two years ago. She was unmarried and likely to remain so for no nobleman was good enough for the bitch, or so his story goes; she rejected his suit at any rate. But mark you this—Lady Tess is described as a great beauty with long raven-black hair. But here is the most significant part—he said she had strange silver eyes and in attendance at their meeting was her lady’s maid, a girl who was mute!”

Broderick controlled his response. She lied to him! Posing as her maid instead of the other way around—it was a clever ruse—it had certainly fooled him. Now they were all in danger. “An astonishing tale,” he said coolly.

“Your lordship,” Davey whispered furiously. “You cannot ignore the similarities. She pretended to be mute and cut her hair but she could not change the colour of her eyes.

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