The raider's bride by Cates Kimberly

Author:Cates, Kimberly [Cates, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance: Historical, Fiction, Fiction - Romance, Romance - Historical, Fiction / Romance / General, Governesses
Publisher: New York : Pocket Books
Published: 1994-04-21T19:00:00+00:00

THE RAIDER'S BRIDE

to slink back to their firesides and drink hot toddies instead of riding the highroads with Pendragon, then we're well rid of them. We can hardly keep King George's soldiers off-balance by playing pat-a-cake with them. We must seem fearless, invincible!"

"It's rather hard to seem invincible when your mask is covered with blood," Tony said. "And placing your neck in a noose for the thrill in it is not fearlessness, Ian. It's pure stupidity, and you damn well know it."

Ian's muscles tensed with fury, and he hated the truth in Tony's words. "Maybe I should have let Atwood shoot me square between the eyes. It would have saved me the irritation of listening to you."

"Blast it, Ian, if you want to get yourself killed, it's your life. But there are other men who have reasons to live. Men who are willing to shed their blood in the cause of freedom, but who are not willing to spill it for no other reason than to feed into your mad sense of adventure."

"Men like you, Tony? Now that you're besotted with the lovely Nora?" Ian heard the bitterness in his voice but knew that it no longer arose from his scorn for such relationships. Now it was heated with the hot ember of despair that had been planted in his chest when he lost himself in Emily d'Autrecourt's violet eyes. "There is the door, my friend," he bit out harshly. "Feel free to shut it on your way out."

"Damn you to hell!" Tony grabbed up the basin and threw it, shattering it against the wall. The alarmed whinnies of the horses rose through the floorboards like echoes of the two men's fury. "The men who ride with you don't deserve your contempt, and neither do I. After what you did last night, riding out alone, robbing the colonel in the middle of an accursed musicale—"

"It was an act of mercy. I ask you, Tony, what would you have done if you'd been riding along and heard that pompous oaf annihilating a piece by Bach on the pianoforte? The doors of the music room were open wide, and he was disturbing not only his unfortunate guests but helpless woodland creatures and passersby as well. I could hardly

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