To Wed a Wild Scot by Anna Bradley

Author:Anna Bradley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Published: 2019-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Stokes stood in front of the horse the stable boy had saddled for Juliana, his arms crossed over his chest. “I don’t like it, my lady.”

Juliana sighed. No, Stokes wouldn’t like it, would he? Between her disappearance the night she’d followed Logan to Castle Kinross and the Robertson farm debacle the next day, Stokes had taken to muttering darkly every time Logan crossed his path. “I see that, Stokes, but I can assure you despite appearances to the contrary, Mr. Blair is perfectly trustworthy.”

“He doesn’t look trustworthy. He looks like a scoundrel.”

“Hush, will you?” Juliana peered around the stable door into the yard. Logan was waiting for her, ready to escort her to the Sassy Lassie to retrieve whatever letters might be waiting there. “He’ll hear you.”

“Don’t care if he does hear me. I don’t like the way he looks at you.”

Juliana bit her lip, but she couldn’t help herself. “How does he look at me?”

Stokes scowled. “Like a thief looks at a silk purse.”

Did he, indeed? Juliana suppressed a shiver. “Nonsense. You’re being ridiculous. Mr. Blair is a perfect gentleman.”

Perhaps that was just a tiny exaggeration, but Juliana wouldn’t admit that to Stokes. He wouldn’t hesitate to kick up a dreadful fuss if he thought she was putting herself into a rake’s hands. Logan wasn’t a rake, of course, but that’s how Stokes would see it, especially if he knew about that kiss.

“I can fetch your letters just as easily as you can, my lady.” Stokes’s lips were pressed into a stubborn line.

“Yes, yes, of course you can, Stokes, but…”

But I’m going to marry the man, so there’s no sense in drawing the line at riding to Inverness with him.

She hadn’t mentioned the betrothal to Stokes yet. Not that she was hiding it from him, of course. No, nothing so devious as that. She’d tell him soon. Just as soon as…

As soon as she and Logan were wed, and it was too late for Stokes to object.

“But what?” Stokes regarded her for a moment with narrowed eyes, then threw his hands up in the air. “If you’re up to any tricks, my lady, you’d better ’fess up right now, or—”

“Lady Juliana?” Logan peered around the side of the stable door. “If we’re going to get back to Castle Kinross by this afternoon, we’d better go.”

“Did you hear that, Stokes? If you keep me here arguing much longer, Mr. Blair and I will be riding back at dusk. Alone.” Juliana lowered her voice, so only Stokes could hear her. “Surely that’s not what you want.”

Stokes shot a dark look at Logan. “Don’t want you riding with him at all.”

Stokes didn’t make any effort to lower his voice. Logan heard him and looked from Juliana to Stokes and back again, a sly grin lifting one corner of his lip.

That wicked little grin was not helpful. Juliana shooed Logan back into the stable yard with a wave of her hand before Stokes could see it. “Now then, Stokes. Mr. Blair is the duke’s brother.

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