Stars in Your Eyes by Lynn Kurland

Author:Lynn Kurland [Kurland, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Family Saga, United States, Romance, Contemporary, Historical, Scottish, Paranormal, Time Travel, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Sagas, Historical Romance
Amazon: B00U5KNUDY
Publisher: Jove
Published: 2015-11-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Phillip couldn’t remember the last time he’d enjoyed so much comfort and ease. The afternoon had been pleasant, the weather unusually fine, and the victuals provided by his aunt’s cook some of the best he’d ingested in quite some time. He’d happily watched the antics of his younger cousins, engaged in interesting conversation with cousins closer to his age, and had the privilege of looking at a very lovely woman. If he hadn’t known better, he would have sworn someone was trying to make a match between him and a woman he’d just met.

He wasn’t certain his sire would have approved, but then again, he wouldn’t have been the first one in his family to give his heart where no title lay.

A terribly premature thought, no doubt, so he contented himself with watching Imogen playing at alquerques with his cousins and allowing himself the luxury of wondering about her. The list was unfortunately not terribly different than it had been the first time he’d made it.

How had she come to be at Haemesburgh without a guard, proper gear, or any idea—or so it had seemed at first—of how to make herself understood? How had she managed to get herself inside gates that had been so readily barred to him whilst not having any idea at all who the garrison captain was? Why had she been trying to poach swords from anyone willing to relinquish theirs so she could shove them into the hole in the floor behind the lord’s chair?

Why did she have to be so terribly lovely in a way he couldn’t quite lay his finger on?

The final thought that baffled him was why she had bolted for Ravensthorpe’s tower chamber the very moment they had walked into the hall. He’d assumed she had left something behind earlier, but she had dodged his question about it and simply fled. He’d nodded to Theo and Sam to follow her lest she find herself lost, but he’d wondered what she had been so desperate to find and why she had looked so unnerved when she’d returned empty-handed.

She was a mystery, and, as he’d made clear to anyone who would listen, he didn’t care for mysteries. He liked his problems to come at him with swords. That was the sort of thing he understood. But women with odd clothing who were loitering in keeps where they shouldn’t have been? Nay, those were things he knew spelled trouble for his peace of mind should he pursue them any further.

Yet her laugh was like a bubbling brook.

Actually, it was closer to hiccoughs, but it was charming nonetheless. She still looked slightly ill at ease, but less than before. It was hard to resist the mischief of his cousins. If he hadn’t been such a hard-hearted bastard, he might have smiled as well.

He was beginning to wonder what it was he’d ever seen in Heather of Haemesburgh—not that he’d ever had a good look at her. Even her castle wasn’t as attractive a place as he’d remembered it being.

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