Wild Roses by Miriam Minger

Author:Miriam Minger [Minger, Miriam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: historical fiction, romance, historical romance
ISBN: 9780982883556
Publisher: Walker Publishing
Published: 2010-11-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

"Perhaps, Lord FitzWilliam, all she needs is to know you a little better to ease her fears. What has it been—five days? You're really no more than strangers to each other, and that must change."

Lady Enid's fresh advice ringing in his mind, Duncan strode toward the bedchamber he couldn't have left faster last night . . . or he wouldn't have left at all.

It still astounded him that John de Gray had suggested he go to Rose's room when Lady Enid had returned to the banquet hall saying she'd heard Rose begin to weep as soon as she'd shut the door. Or perhaps it had been the pointed look Lady Enid had thrown her husband when he'd at first only advised Duncan to have another goblet of wine. God's teeth, women did have a meaningful way with their eyes. In the next instant, John de Gray had groused that Duncan might want to check on her, and he hadn't hesitated.

He had already been on his way there this morning when Lady Enid had waved him down and informed him that she'd just been to see Rose herself, and that she seemed in lighter spirits. It had been all Duncan could do not to make some ill-advised comment when Lady Enid had suggested he continue whatever he'd done to cheer Rose, along with a gentle plea for him to heed her well-intentioned advice. He fully intended to—at least the latter, while the other . . .

Duncan swore under his breath, the undeniable tightening in his lower body only a hint of what he'd suffered last night. His first mistake had been in kissing Rose, the softness of her lips, the sweet taste of her, enough alone to haunt him deep into the morning. But when he'd dragged her sleeping gown above her hips and—

"Enough, man, you'll have a babe made before she's a bride," he said gruffly to himself, not surprised that the idea didn't displease him. His impatience only growing that the entire matter of the marriage be done and settled, it only tore at him further that it might be days yet before he could claim Rose as his own—if and when her clan came forward. That they hadn't made him wonder if plans for battle were already being drawn.

Scowling, Duncan forced the grim possibility from his mind, telling himself for the hundredth time that if so, it altered nothing. Not to him.

He had never thought another woman would come close to sharing a place in his heart with Gisele, but now that he had found her, he was not about to let her go—John de Gray and his warning be damned. If need be, he would go to London to the king to ask that such a demand be overruled. If Rose's clan proved reluctant, he'd already decided as much. There were more ways to preserve peace than to risk losing what he'd thought never to find again. Dammit, that bog had been close enough . . .

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