White Raven's Lover by Nhys Glover

Author:Nhys Glover [Glover, Nhys]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Belisama Press
Published: 2014-02-10T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Brigantes Territory BRITANNIA

Gaius set a hectic pace for the rest of the afternoon, following the road beside the winding river that had been used for hundreds of years by the local tribes. The legionaries in the area were set the task of carving out straight roads for Roman use, but for the time being, the old roads were the most reliable.

His body still shook with the uncontrollable passion he’d felt when he kissed Brennwen. It had been like a fire that exploded into life, flames shooting into the sky, raging and burning everything in its path. Never in all his nearly thirty years had he felt anything like it.

And the fact that he hadn’t felt that way about Calidia, his dear, sweet Calidia, the woman who had given her life to provide his dearest wish, had been what drove him from the pale woman’s arms. He shouldn’t feel that way about a girl he’d only known a few days. He shouldn’t feel out of his mind with desire for her when his son was in the hands of his enemies, suffering who-knew-what as he waited for his father to find him.

Instead of spending every moment of his waking day thinking about how to save his son, Gaius’ mind had become preoccupied with every gesture and expression that crossed Brennwen’s face. His eyes returned to her over and over again as if they couldn’t get enough of the sight of her.

Why he felt this way, he had no idea. It wasn’t as if she was beautiful in the way his sweet Calidia had been beautiful. Many people might even call her ugly because of that deathly white skin and hair. Even her brows and eyelashes were white. When she blushed, as she had earlier, she had become red and blotchy. No, not beautiful at all.

And yet her serious, sensitive, overly-expressive face held an appeal he couldn’t deny. She was an exotic, winter creature, pristine and silent as newly fallen snow on an empty moor. But when she smiled, as she did at rare, wonderful moments, it was like the sun broke through the clouds and set the snow to sparkling. She became luminescent.

It was wrong. It went against every instinct within him. Yet the feelings she drew from him were potent and barely controllable.

Feelings that were a betrayal of all he held dear.

They had to stop. He had to remain focused. She was a damaged creature far beneath him. Her only purpose was to find his son. Once that was done, she would go away, go back to her old life.

Even as he thought that, he knew there was no life for her to go back to. Her druid was dead. There was a master who still owned her somewhere in the South. But that man had raped the child she had been and then set his friends onto her to hide his infidelity from his wife. That was all she had to go back to when all this was over.

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