The Rebellious Red by Rosamund Winchester & Pirates of Britannia World

Author:Rosamund Winchester & Pirates of Britannia World [Winchester, Rosamund]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, Fiction, Medieval
Publisher: DragonMedia Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2019-07-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

If Rose could bottle the hatred on the face of the woman seated across from her, she’d make a fortune selling it as a weapon.

She ignored Briar as much as she could, but since the woman never seemed to look away from Rose, Rose had to stomach eating her meal with the feeling of being burned alive with a gaze.

The food was good enough, filling if a little bland, but she didn’t care what she ate as long as Thorn kept his promise to take her into the village.

“Tell me again how this woman came tae our doorstep,” Briar sneered, her imperious expression cutting nicks in Rose’s carefully built wall. The wall meant to keep Briar safe from Rose’s temper.

She’s lucky I left my sword under my pillow, she mentally grumbled, doing everything she could to not sneer at Briar in return. What did the woman have against Rose? It wasn’t as though Rose had come to take Thorn from her; on the contrary, she was happy to leave Thorn in Briar’s capable hands, because if he was too busy with his bride-to-be, then he wouldn’t be around to drive Rose mad with the way her body responded to a simple look.

Damn him and his dark, devastatingly sensual eyes. And his lips should be a crime!

Thorn was at the head of the long table, set on a dais at the back of the great hall, and every one of his men—it seemed that way anyway—were all seated at other long tables in the room. And now, they were all turned to stare at them with interest and suspicion in their weathered and scarred faces.

“I have come from Wales to visit with your laird,” she answered, leaning back in her seat to appear unbothered by all the unwanted attention. Usually, she liked being the focus of men’s attentions, it made it easier to crook a finger and get them into her bed, a quick and easy way to numb the world for a few hours. But, here, in Thorn’s great hall, she wanted to pry out the eyes of everyone present and drop them onto the floor where they’d step on them in their panic to escape her.

She choked on a laugh at the vision that conjured, but reset her features as Thorn’s gaze landed on her.

“Aye, Rose Owains is an old friend, and she is here to offer condolences for my father’s passing,” Thorn commented, and Rose wanted to kick him under the table. The man couldn’t lie his way out of an arm-wrestling match with a babe.

Briar scowled. “After four years?” she shrilled. “Do ye take me for an idiot?”

Rose cocked her head as if to say, “Aye,” but she kept that to herself. Instead, she decided to clean up the mess Thorn had made of the situation.

“The Owains are busy, and we rarely, if ever, come close enough to Scotland to hear any news of Thorn or the MacPherson clan. The only reason I knew about his father’s passing was because I had met with two men in Port Eynon Bay who’d mentioned it.

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