Tamed by a Laird

Author:Amanda Scott [SCOTT, AMANDA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Historical, FIC027050, C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9781615231935
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Hugh watched Jenny even more narrowly than he had watched the Joculator. He believed the man but could not imagine what would induce a frank lass like Jenny to tell such falsehoods.

When she hesitated, Hugh said sternly, “What exactly did you tell him?”

Visibly swallowing, she faced him then and said, “I told him we had met at Annan House, that you had expressed interest in me and had followed me, but that I had no interest in marrying any man, and had tried to make that plain to you.”

“Marrying! What demon possessed you to say such a thing?”

“Mayhap it was just the first thing I could think of to disarm you.”

Recognizing the echo of his words to her, regarding what he had said about his mother, he gave her a look calculated to make his lack of amusement plain.

Men were dousing torches in the square, but her deep flush was visible even in the diminishing light. She looked from him to the Joculator and back before she said, “Please, Hugo, can we not discuss this privately? I ken fine that you are angry with me, but I’d liefer explain it all only to you.”

He hesitated and instantly recalled a few likely details of her tale that he, too, would rather not reveal to others. So he did not press her.

Turning to the Joculator instead, he said, “I’d also like to know what demon possessed you to believe her. I have seen her try merely to equivocate and fail. One can easily read her thoughts in every expression.”

“Aye, sure,” the Joculator agreed. “I knew she was lying. But I’m seeing now that I mistook which bit was the lie. Sithee, I thought ’twas what she said about her feelings for you. Anyone seeing the pair o’ ye together of late would ha’ made the same mistake, especially seeing ye kiss, as I did.”

“So you did see that,” Hugh said with a sigh.

“Aye, but even had I not, ye keep your eyes fixed on her from dawn to dusk, lad, and fidget yourself to flinders when she disappears for longer nor ye think she should. And, whilst she’s singing to ye, she looks at ye as if she’d climb right into your arms. What else was any sensible man to think?”

Hugh looked again at Jenny, who was eyeing the Joculator with guilt clearly lacerating her conscience. “I… I never meant to make such trouble,” she said. “I hope you can forgive me, sir.”

The Joculator shook his head. “Sakes, lassie, ’tis m’self ought to be asking ye. I thought from what I’d seen that ye’d both be thanking me. But I’m thinking now I’ve put me foot right in it. Still and all, if ye want to undo this marriage, it should be no great thing to apply to the Kirk for an annulment. ’Tis no quite the thing, sithee, for a priest to lend himself to a minstrels’ play.”

“You seem to know much about many things,” Hugh said dryly. “Have you created such ticklish alliances before?”

“Nay, then.

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