Grall, Marilyn by Taming the Lion

Author:Taming the Lion [Lion, Taming the]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-16T17:28:37.539000+00:00

Smiles and laughter soon turned to concentration as Lionel listened to his wife's "information."

He was skeptical when Alexandra told him with absolute confidence that she could cure his knee...completely.

"The pain is already improving, Alexandra," he said. "That is not the long-term problem with my knee. There's something far worse than occasional flare-ups of pain, which is--"

"--which is that your knee gives out now and then, without warning," Alex said, finishing his thought.

Lionel nodded. Clearly, she knew something about such injuries.

"Aye," he admitted, looking down at the swollen knee, flexing it just a little to check its condition.

"You see, Lionel," Alex continued, "I had a knee injury that was probably quite similar to yours, when I was thirteen."

Surprised by that admission, Lionel looked up. Then he said ruefully, "I hesitate to ask how you hurt yourself, little hellion."

"Yes, well, that's neither here nor there, so--"

"Alexandra..."

"You're exasperating, husband!" Alex declared. "Do you want to hear about every little mishap I've ever had...mayhap since the day I was born?"

"Only about the one that caused your knee injury, wife," he said gruffly, then softened his tone. "I wanted to see if there was any comparison between your injury and mine."

Alex sighed, then bit her lower lip. "I...that is, I was..." she stammered, obviously reluctant.

"Continue, Alexandra," Lionel demanded, suddenly suspecting he was not going to like this story.

"I jumped from the back of a horse," Alex finally admitted, "because I thought he was going to plunge to his death over the...seaside cliff. But he didn't," she hastened to add. "He was just fine. I was the only one hurt."

Lionel muttered and shook his head. Somehow, he was not surprised.

"Now, Lionel," Alex appeased, touching his hand, "you said you were only interested in my accident as a comparison to yours. Let's stick to the subject, shall we? Hmm?"

Lionel studied her quietly for a time, then finally said, "Very well, Alexandra. We can always discuss just how many horses you've nearly killed at another time."

He saw her gulp, but he said nothing more on that particular subject. Surely, she'd learned her lesson with Thunder's death. Determined to learn more about her injury, he said, "Did you land directly on your knee?"

"Aye," Alex answered. "By the time I was sitting on the ground, the knee was twisted beneath me at a very odd angle."

Lionel nodded again. That was exactly what had happened to him...except that his injury had occurred during battle, not during a youthful misadventure.

" 'Tis exactly the same, Alexandra," he affirmed aloud, leaning forward, far less skeptical now. "How did you regain the strength in your...which knee was it?"

"The right one, just like yours," Alex said. She stretched out her shapely limb, raising the bed robe to show him the knee. "As you can see, it recovered completely...and yours can, too."

"How?"

Such a simple little word, but it meant so much to Alex. At least in this one thing, she was more knowledgeable than her husband. From a purely intellectual standpoint, that was a comforting thought. Besides that, she truly wanted to see Lionel recover his strength in that knee.

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