Untamed Hearts by Heather Mccollum

Author:Heather Mccollum [Mccollum, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Highland
Published: 2014-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Jonet ran the rag, dampened with lilac-scented water, over her face, down her neck and chest. She rubbed her arms and dipped the cloth back in the basin. She grabbed the brush and worked it through her hair. It was clean as she’d bathed after waking from her nap before the bairn’s blessing, but she wanted to brush the wood smoke from it. She barely noticed the snarls and stroked right through them.

What had she been thinking telling Will to meet her here, asking a giddy, shocked Ann to bunk somewhere else? Hell. It wasn’t the whisky as she had an exceptional tolerance to any spirits. Perhaps it had been his drawings, the knowledge that there were other ways to lay with a man, other ways that had she known, may have kept Machar from straying.

The whoring lasses that had lured him easily away had called her cold, not able to keep her man. Well, now she would learn what it meant to keep one. She wasn’t cold, just ignorant. She’d only been sixteen, and all her mother had told her was that her husband would teach her what she needed to know. Machar hadn’t, but Will Wyatt was going to.

Jonet glanced at the brush full of her dark strands. If she kept it up, she’d be bald by the time he arrived. Lord, how many minutes had passed since she’d snuck through the nearly empty great hall to her room? Five minutes, ten? She raced to Ann’s basin of fresh water and rubbed her teeth with a damp cloth and chewed some mint she kept from the kitchen garden. She sat on the edge of the bed and kicked off her boots. Should she be undressed? Nay, a man like Will might want to undress a lass. She stood up to bank the fire and paced along the rug. Maybe she should be lying on the covers. Nay, she didn’t want to look like a whore. It was bad enough that she had invited him to her rooms. God’s teeth. What to do? She’d already used the jake on the way up, and she’d washed, brushed, and drawn back the coverlet. There was nothing else to do but wait, so she stood in the center of the room doing nothing but trying not to faint.

A soft rap on the door made her jump, and before she could move, Will slid in and softly lowered the bar across it. Jonet forced herself to drop her clasped hands so they hung by her sides. Will walked directly to her and looked down into her eyes. If he asked her if she was sure she wanted to do this, she might back out.

“Kiss me.” Her voice broke the nervous silence in the room.

Will’s eyebrow rose, giving him the wicked look of a scoundrel, and Jonet’s heart raced. “Aye now,” he said low, his voice once again like velvet over pebbles. “I like a woman who tells me what she wants.”

He lowered

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