Warrior's Moon A Love Story by Hawkes Jaclyn

Author:Hawkes, Jaclyn [Hawkes, Jaclyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spirit Dance Books LLC
Published: 2013-11-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

All the way back to Mordecai’s, Peyton thought back over that conversation with Chantaya. She was sweet, and smart, and beautiful, and frustratingly strong. And how he loved her for it! But it troubled him deeply.

The thought of her there at mercy of such men made his stomach clench in fury, but in the end, she had been right about being willing to take risks for the good of the whole kingdom. Still, he hated every bit of it. Hated it with a passion that threatened to burn a hole in his very belly if he let it eat at him.

He let his horse have its head at a fast trot on the moonlit trail as he thought back over the things they had spoken of. For hours they had spoken there in the shadows of the trees, sharing information, and sweet kisses, before he’d helped her back into her small window, feeling as if his heart was slamming shut to leave her there like that. It had been awful leaving her in Navarre to go into training. But that had been nothing to the hell of knowing he was leaving her at such risk at Rosskeene Manor.

Her and Isabella both. It made him feel less than the shadow of an honorable man. What manner of hero was he to ride away from her there? And yet, what manner of man would he have been to go against what he knew the both of them were to do? ‘Twas God’s will. He knew it was. Still, he hated it. It was going to take every bit of faith he had to trust in God to keep her safe in such a situation.

Deep in the night, as the pale moon settled into the crags of the mountains to the west, he approached Mordecai’s cottage to find the old man sitting on his porch waiting for him. Together they turned Peyton’s charger in with Mordecai’s piebald horse and then walked side by side into the little stone house. Surprisingly, Mordecai knew exactly what had happened. The conversation as Mordecai set out bread and cheese and cider wasn’t on simply bringing them home, but on the logistics of how best to aid the two Kincraig women and resolve the rumblings of insurrection.

As Peyton went to settle onto a pallet spread before the fire for a few hours rest, Mordecai’s big hand gripped his shoulder. Peyton met his eyes, knowing the old knight understood just what he was up against, as no one else ever could have. Mordecai had the soul and character of a hero as well. It was unbelievably comforting to know Mordecai was there at his back, fighting for the same things he was.

Late the next morning, when Peyton was admitted to see the prince, the teasing grin that lit up the young royal’s face upon seeing Peyton faded as he took in Peyton’s exhausted countenance and then heard the details that Chantaya had documented and given to him there in the woods of Rosskeene Manor.

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