To Love a Highland Rogue by Collette Cameron

Author:Collette Cameron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Heart of a Scot, Book One
Publisher: Blue Rose Romance
Published: 2017-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

As the rain turned to hail, pelting the sodden earth with minuscule white cannon balls, Mayra held her breath and squeezed the table’s rough edge until her knuckles turned white.

Every muscle taut, she awaited Coburn’s response.

What would he say?

Would distaste or annoyance darken his mossy eyes and turn his handsome mouth down?

Would he care at all?

Had she presumed his attraction to her more than it actually was?

Or—curses—did his roguish, oh-so-charming demeanor hide a knave’s heart and morals after all? In which case, she may have dived from a sizzling pan straight into the fire’s flames.

Nae. Nae.

He was a good man.

An honorable man.

She could see it in his candid gaze. More than that, she sensed it.

Mayra had seriously considered lying, but in the end, Coburn must be made aware of her betrothal. Most everyone in the village knew, and if he hadn’t heard already, he soon would.

He must also know she was determined to end the inconvenience.

Silly though it might be, she couldn’t bear for him to think ill of her, to believe her dishonest or deceptive when Logan Rutherford’s regard meant less to her than that little brown spider tending its web in the window’s corner.

True, she scarcely knew Coburn, but something had transpired between them when he held her in his burly arms and had deepened with each mesmerizing encounter since.

Something wonderful. And frightening. And unexplainable.

Yet, something that also made her want more from life and even more determined to escape the bondage she had lived with almost since birth. To dare to pursue a different path, understanding fully the consequences of her bold choice.

Was she brave enough to take that course?

Face the outcome, good or bad?

Pushing her shoulders back, she gave an inward nod.

Aye, mayhap not as much brave as desperate and resolute.

A puppet she’d be no more.

If the king didn’t grant her request—if he even bothered to read her missive, since a Highland lass from an obscure clan was wholly insignificant to His Majesty—then Rutherford must be forced to cry off.

Almost seventeen, her eldest brother, Bhric, was the same age as Mayra had been when Da died and she took over as Dunrangour’s temporary laird.

Past time Bhric assumed his birthright, and with Mayra’s dowry, the growing Highland cattle herd, and the valuable land returned to Dunrangour’s estate, Mum and the lads should be fine.

Coburn’s large fingers, the nails clean and square, encircled his mug as he lifted it to his mouth. A shock of mahogany hair fell across his forehead, and he swept it back into place with his other hand, revealing a faded, whitish scar along the outside of his palm.

A childhood wound perchance?

She still knew little about him, except that he had the most musical Scots brogue and his eyes…. She became lost each time she looked into their depths.

Nevertheless, the unidentifiable feeling that took root in her soul days ago, continued to blossom and grow. So startling and rapidly, it quite took her breath away. Either she was smitten or deranged for entertaining the thoughts and desires he—an enthralling and striking stranger—had aroused.

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