Valens the Fletcher and his Captive [Medieval Captives 2] (BookStrand Publishing Romance) by Lindsay Townsend

Author:Lindsay Townsend
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Published: 2015-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

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Outside, Valens braced himself for his lord’s “suggestions”, which he knew would not be long in coming.

Sebastian swung round with a flare of his cloak and faced him, his face as yielding as stone. “Court her, runt. Begin tomorrow.”

“I have been doing it,” Valens answered quietly, irritated that his lord should consider him so blind. “She needs to trust me. I know that.”

“A coin-maker.” Sebastian slapped a glove against his palm. “Our sheriff will want to know if the coiners have been up to their tricks again with counterfeiting.”

“There is also the boy’s inheritance.”

Sebastian squeezed his shoulder. “More there than little Jack’s rights, mister fletcher, if you care to look.”

Valens folded his arms across his chest. “I will ask her,” he replied, stressing the word ask.

“I will bring someone to marry you both in four days.” Sebastian spoke as if the wedding was a foregone conclusion. He slapped the gold ring he had brought with him on top of the water barrel, another silent command. “Be ready.”

“Have you a love philter, then?” Valens said, gripping his forearms so he would not lash out at the taller man. Something of his anger must have shown in his face, in more than the flush that ramped up his cheeks, for Sebastian, not one to back down usually, took a step away from him.

Sebastian sighed and shrugged. “Women like flowers. Walks in the woods. ‘Tis summer and all is still pretty.”

Valens growled low in his throat. “She will have done such with her first husband.” The thought did not make him jealous, so why did resentment curdle his insides? I do not want Kate gathering daisies with anyone but me and the little ones.

“You are not needed for harvest.” Implacably cheerful, his lord must have sensed his less than happy mood and, amazingly, offered a solution. “I will take fewer arrows from you this month.”

Speaking, Sebastian turned and strode to his bay palfrey. “Make yourself smarter, runt, like a squirrel in courting fur,” he called over his shoulder. “Four days, remember.”

Valens quelled the impulse to make a vulgar gesture after his retreating lord and sagged a little on his heels as the rest of the world came back in a swirl of colors and sounds and scents. Walking to the barrel and picking up the gold ring, he admitted that the summer was indeed pretty, as pretty as Kate herself, and he had four days to woo her.

But how do I do it?

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