The Highlander's Reluctant Bride by MacRae Cathy

Author:MacRae, Cathy [MacRae, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Romance, Love Story
ISBN: 9781619354067
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing
Published: 2014-03-14T14:00:00+00:00

He gently brushed his lips against her cheek, the soft warmth teasing him mercilessly. He lingered at the corner of her mouth, urging her to meet his kiss. A tiny gasp slipped from Riona’s throat. The simple buss was destined from the start to be something much more, and Riona’s hands rose to his chest, bracing against him.

Ranald struggled to remember the people around them. Despite his teasing words, he knew things could quickly get out of hand if he let his control slide the least bit.

He grasped her hands, holding them between their bodies, keeping them from touching more than they already had. The flavor of wine lingered on her lips, and Ranald wondered how the mere taste of her could leave his head reeling as though he’d drunk the entire flask.

A blaring, clarion blast of a horn, muted by the closed door of the keep, rang out. A dropped piece of crockery crashed on the rush-strewn floor in the suddenly hushed room. Tearing himself away from Riona in a drench of cold reality, his head came up, alert. Around him the people in the hall were silent, dreadfully, fearfully so.

As one they faced the doors of the great hall.

Ranald was gone so quickly from her side, Riona felt the wind of his movement swirl her gown against her legs. Passion’s fog cleared with a rush of panic, and she spun, searching for Gilda. The tense knot in her stomach relaxed slightly to see the lass huddled against Tavia’s skirts. The urgency to hold her daughter warred with the need to know the reason for the single warning note of the horn. Ignoring Tavia’s hissed command, Gilda tore herself from the old woman’s grasp and darted across the room, flinging herself into Riona’s arms, taking her indecision from her.

Scooping Gilda into her arms, Riona turned her attention to the great double doors of the hall, closed and latched firmly behind Ranald and his men. Soldiers stood on either side of the doorway, their attention fixed through the arrow slits beside the doors on the unfolding scene in the bailey.

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