Harlequin Historical April 2014 - Bundle 1 of 2: Welcome to Wyoming\The Wedding Ring Quest\Rescued from Ruin by Kate Bridges

Author:Kate Bridges
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Captain Rennie had been in a worse prison in Spain, but at least he hadn’t been cold in Cadiz. He couldn’t stop shivering as Mary and Nathan came into his cell. She jumped when the door clanged behind them, which he found endearing. Whatever Miss Rennie’s quietly lived existence in Edinburgh, he could have successfully wagered that it had never included a turn in a dungeon, not even for a visit.

Good Lord, but the woman had beautiful eyes. There was a certain snap and fire in them right now, which hardly surprised him. She looked like a woman with a huge grievance, a wife, perhaps. As he admired the view, she opened and closed one eye in an elaborate wink. She turned around to address the constable.

‘Sir, I would greatly appreciate it if you would get a blanket for my wretched husband.’

So that was the game. He liked it. Mary Rennie might know nothing about prisons, but she seemed to understand that only close relatives would be allowed in dungeons after midnight, if at all.

The constable attempted an argument, but he got nowhere. Quite possibly the look that Mary was directing at him contrasted with the captain’s view. As he watched, appreciative, she ushered his son towards the constable.

‘If you don’t feel secure about leaving the captain with me, send Nathan upstairs with a note. Captain Rennie needs a blanket and he needs one now.’

She said it calmly and with vast authority, reminding Ross of Admiralty lords. The constable gestured to his son and they left the hall without a word. Nathan looked back, anxious, and Mary blew him a kiss, which seemed to reassure his boy. Like father, like son; he could remember a kiss or two like that from Inez.

‘Well, now,’ Mary began, when they were alone. ‘Let’s put on your leg and get you dressed and you can tell me why on earth you ever trusted that purser for a single moment. Honestly, Ross, you are trying my very last nerve and I have a limited supply.’

Her calm acceptance of the situation amazed him. She handed him the wadding to pad his stump, then eased his wooden leg in place. Unperturbed by his naked body under that nightshirt he should have discarded years ago, she strapped the belt around his waist, then started to help him into his smallclothes while he stood and leaned against her.

He did try her once. When he told her he preferred his drawers on before his leg, because then the belt wouldn’t chafe his waist, she started over, after muttering something under her breath that he never intended to question. When her hand brushed his genitals, he found her touch entirely pleasing. Her hand didn’t linger there, but she wasn’t missish about the matter.

He probably didn’t need to lean against her—he had been dressing himself for years, after all—but her touch comforted him.

‘Do you have a plan?’ he asked after she helped him into his trousers and shook the wrinkles from his shirt.

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