The Highlander's Temptation (The Stolen Bride Series) by Eliza Knight

Author:Eliza Knight [Knight, Eliza]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Knight Media, LLC
Published: 2014-02-20T11:00:00+00:00

Hours later, Lorna still lay on top of her coverlet, eyes stinging from tears, her entire face feeling swollen. She mourned the loss of so much—Jamie, love, a choice, and most especially her freedom.

How could she bring herself to become resigned to marrying MacKinnon? She knew nothing of him and even if he was handsome, that didn’t reveal anything of his temperament.

What if he was cruel? Magnus said the man would be good to her, but what did he know? Nothing!

Lorna was an unconventional bride, for certain. Raised to speak out her mind, to value her opinion and thoughts, she wouldn’t do well with a man who sought to quell them. Jamie had been the only man she’d ever met who didn’t mind her tongue, seemed to revel in her wit and non-conforming charm.

Lorna flopped onto her back, arm across her eyes. Judging from the determined set of Magnus’ jaw there seemed little she could do to change his mind.

If she was lucky, like Magnus said, in time she’d grow to care for her husband. Rubbish!

She had to do something. She couldn’t just sit back and let her brother resign her to a fate that would leave her empty inside. No matter whom the groom was. MacKinnon could have been the most sought after suitor in all of Scotland, but the thing was, Lorna had already chosen who she wanted to spend her life with. Even if she’d pushed him away. It seemed to have taken that move, and this sudden onslaught of bad news to realize that she really wanted Jamie in her life.

Now if only she could figure out how to persuade Magnus to contact Jamie and forget about MacKinnon.

The rain had started to slow and through the darkened clouds in the distance, the sun shone in reaching streams of yellow. The nooning had passed and Lorna had not let her maid, Aunt Fiona, nor Heather in to give her a tray. They’d begged and pleaded, but she’d turned them all away. Her appetite had disappeared. She didn’t know what worried them more—her loss of hunger or her sobbing for hours.

No matter, it was time to wash away her tears and move forward. She’d not settle. Besides, her stomach had started to growl.

Lorna heaved herself from bed and walked over to the wash basin, splashing cool water on her face, and wiping away the remnants. Just that little action made her feel immeasurably better, as though she not only washed away her tears, but her uncertainty. If she had to steal her horse away in the night and ride to Glasgow, she’d make it there somehow.

She’d stand before Jamie Montgomery, no matter how shameful it would seem to some, and declare her—

What? Her intentions to marry him? Her…feelings for him?

Was it love? Or desperation?

Lorna dare not say it was love. Not at all. She wiped the rest of the water from her face, then opened her door to find that the tray of food had been left for her outside.

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