The Chieftain's Feud (Chieftain Series Book ~ 3) by Frances Housden

Author:Frances Housden
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Eve released a wee sigh, feeling slightly safer than she had a moment ago. It mattered naught that he was acting cagey, substituting the word want for love. She kenned what men were like, she’d lived with three of them all her life, and if anybody was sweered to admit what they actually felt, it was a man. Sweet words of love and prose were the coin of minstrels. Real men showed their emotions with the slide of a steel blade, the way his friend Rob had. Jamie had told her all about that night—the night he had cut his ties with the woman who had bewitched him.

She slid her fingers down the hard length of his shaft, enjoying the heat against her palm. After falling frae Mirabelle’s back into the snow, she had discovered what it was like to feel her life’s blood freeze in her veins. Gradually, the air in her lungs appeared to solidify, making it hard to breathe, while all her warmth had shifted lower to concentrate in her womb, saving her bairn.

Aye, her journey had been rash, wild even, but it was all done to save her bairn and her bairn’s father frae the Buchans. She hadnae told Jamie all, frightened that if she did, he would feel the same disgust with her as she did with her family’s plans. For heaven’s sake it was Yuletide, a time for clan celebrations, not slaughter.

All she had intended was to reach Jamie and Cragenlaw afore her father and brothers. Her uncle Hadron despised Jamie, had told her so o’er and o’er while she listened, with her hand pressed against her belly. Hiding both under her plaid, she sought comfort frae the part of Jamie that lived inside her womb, counteracting his neglect with thoughts fashioned in dreams of what their life together could be.

Early on, as the first months passed without sight of Jamie, she had wondered what would happen if one day he arrived to rescue her. Later, she had prayed he never made the attempt, for any assault on the Buchan Keep could mean Jamie’s end, his death, at her family’s hands.

The feel of him in her hand swamped her with memories of how it had been between the two of them. She had had no other man yet could imagine naught so perfect as the feel of Jamie moving inside her. To her dismay, her questioning his love had almost spoiled her chance of discovering if Jamie’s lovemaking would always lift her to the heights of passion. “I’m sorry about earlier. That was fear talking, fear that you wouldnae want me back, had found someone else…” She let the question hidden in her words fade away.

Nervous that she had spoiled their reunion, Eve felt tempted to make a silly jest, but before the thought could take shape on her lips, Jamie’s hot breath scorched her ear in a rough growl of amazement that she could slur his honour. “I ne’er looked at another lass, ne’er thought of such a thing.

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