Stormrider Stormrider by Gemmell David

Author:Gemmell, David [Gemmell, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Adventure, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780345455031
Amazon: 0345455037
Goodreads: 9657623
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2002-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Despite her apparent confidence Cordelia Lowen felt confused and uncertain. Her normally rational mind had been in turmoil since the meeting with Gaise Macon at the mayor’s gathering. It was most unsettling. She could not seem to push him from her thoughts. She kept picturing those strange eyes of gold and green and his quick, nervous smile.

For most of the day she had found herself thinking of him and had managed to convince herself that it was concern for his safety that was unsettling her. After all, he was a servant of the king, and if danger loomed, it was her bounden duty to assist him.

Now, as he led her into the little house, she knew this was only partly true. At nineteen Cordelia Lowen was no stranger to the exquisite joys of physical attraction. There had been young officers whose presence quickened her blood and handsome men who caused thoughts that were quite wicked. No one, however, had come close to affecting her in the same manner as this young nobleman. The thought that she would leave the next day and perhaps never see him again was truly ghastly.

“There is a kettle somewhere,” she heard him say.

“Pray do not concern yourself with tisane, General. I was only teasing. Might I sit by your fire?”

“Of course. May I take your coat?”

“It is a little unconventional for a single woman to enter the home of a bachelor,” she said. “It would be considered even more unseemly were she to undress there.”

“Yes, indeed. Would you object if I removed mine? It seems uncommonly hot.”

She laughed at his discomfort. “Ah, to the Void with convention,” she said, unbuttoning her jacket and removing it. Beneath it she wore a shirt of heavy silk and a brocaded riding waistcoat of shimmering green. Gaise took the jacket from her and hung it on a hook by the door.

“I understand you are leaving early tomorrow,” he said. “Do you yet know your destination?”

“Father says we have been allocated a house in Lincster.”

“That’s only four miles away,” said Gaise, surprised.

“I know,” she said, her good mood fading as she recalled the reason for her visit. “It is one of the matters I wished to discuss with you.”

“It makes no sense.”

“My father is frightened, General Macon. I have never seen him frightened before. It is most unsettling. He is talking of leaving the army, even of going to our estates near Stone. I spoke to him this afternoon, and . . . your name happened to come up. He warned me not to become fond of you. My impression was that he believes something is going to happen here.”

“I think so,” he said with a sigh. “All powder and supplies have been removed, and this afternoon they even tried to remove our mounts. We are isolated here. If Luden Macks were to attack, we’d be sorely tested.”

“I don’t believe Luden Macks is the problem, General.”

He looked at her and said nothing. She found herself reddening under his gaze. “I know my father well, and what I see in him is not just fear.

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