The Virgin's Spy by Andersen Laura

Author:Andersen, Laura [Andersen, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2015-11-10T08:00:00+00:00

Ailis pointed to Askeaton, fifty miles northwest of Cahir. “You know the Earl of Desmond?”

“Not personally.”

“The English think he cannot hold at Askeaton any longer. We are expecting an English siege this summer, which would force Desmond to run for the hills as his cousin FitzMaurice did ten years ago. He could last some years in the wilderness, but that’s hardly likely to advance our cause and roll back English control. Desmond must hold Askeaton.”

“ ‘Our’ cause?”

She met his eyes, a shifting greenish-gold fringed by dark, thick lashes. His hair was almost as black as hers. Though he’d had it cut since reaching Cahir, it was still unruly, and he’d not shaved his beard completely, letting it shadow the angles of his face and jaw. For the first time in her life, Ailis was swept by the desire to touch a man’s hair, to feel it slip between her fingers where it clung to his neck.

It was such a surprising sensation that she almost lost the thread of what she’d been saying. She cleared her throat and looked down at the map without seeing it. “I will never trust you wholly—I cannot afford to. But you have proved useful and I find I can believe in your need for revenge. In that, we are very similar.”

“Are we?”

His voice was neutral, but Ailis thought there was a suppressed energy to it. “You know that Liadan’s father is English—no doubt she told you herself. I have never tried to hide it. I was fourteen when Kilmallock fell to Humphrey Gilbert and the English. By the time FitzMaurice retook and burned the town, I was five months gone with child. I have not spoken of the man responsible, not all these years, because it is no one’s business but mine. Until now. Now, he is almost within my reach. There are plans within plans afoot in Munster just now—and one of those plans is my vengeance.”

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