Knightly Dreams by Anna Markland

Author:Anna Markland [Markland, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-03T06:00:00+00:00

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Susie should have kept her mouth shut. Peter Bateson wasn’t the sort of person who believed in dreams and visions and premonitions. She stood and threw the half-full cup into the trash. “Forget it,” she hissed, trying to refasten the studs of Keith’s jacket with trembling hands.

He stalked after her. They came face to face across the bike. She averted her eyes from his angry gaze, not sure why she cared that he was upset.

He put on his helmet and fiddled with the strap. “If you don’t want to reveal the source of your information,” he said, “I get that. But don’t insult my intelligence with talk of dreams.”

She’d learned from years of bitter arguments with her parents that she couldn’t win a confrontation. She wasn’t good at it. Emotion tied her tongue in knots, so she said nothing as anger boiled inside her. He’d misunderstood her reasons for going to Cressing and jumped to the wrong conclusions.

When he thrust the helmet into her hands, she lost control. “I thought you offered me a lift out of the goodness of your heart,” she hissed, “but you were only interested in picking my brain. You’re not the chivalrous knight I mistook you for.”

She immediately regretted the stupid remark. They weren’t living in the Middle Ages. He must think her an idiot.

Jaw clenched, he glared, then straddled the bike and started the engine. “Hurry up,” he shouted, “this parking lot is notorious for the time it takes to re-enter the motorway.”

She sat behind him, grimly gripping the rail of her seat as he revved the bike out of the parking lot and into the slow-moving exiting traffic. She closed her eyes as he jockeyed for position and moved ahead in the line, earning obscene suggestions and gestures from several drivers. Her back soon ached with the effort of remaining rigidly upright as he sped onto the motorway and the journey resumed.

She’d been silly to hope he might like her once they got to know each other. The first man she’d been attracted to had proven to be mercenary—except he wasn’t interested in her body. He coveted what she knew, which ironically was nothing. It was time to accept she would always be a loner, a foolish misfit who believed in dreams and buried treasure.

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