Much Ado About Highlanders by May McGoldrick

Author:May McGoldrick
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2016-05-02T18:00:00+00:00

A sailor’s woolen cap she’d nipped from somewhere. And an oiled leather pouch. And extra food.

And questions for Alexander’s crew. Where was the square-rigged caravel taking them and how long before they reached there? How do they lower the dory that was lashed to the deck of the ship?

She was as bloody transparent as a puddle on a sunny day. She was planning to jump ship.

What a fool he’d been, making romantic designs regarding their first night in a real bed, of sorts, in the privacy of the captain’s cabin. Like some dreamy-eyed whelp, in love for the first time, he’d been making plans for wooing his wife and been ignoring everything that needed his attention on deck. Like some lovesick lad, he hadn’t stopped thinking of her all day.

And all the while, she’d been making other plans.

Alexander half expected Kenna to be gone—having dropped over the side and swimming for shore—by the time he burst into the cabin. She was still here. Dressed in the same clothes as before. She was wearing a dagger at her belt. Her hair was now tucked into a wool cap, and she was wearing boots he knew she’d borrowed from the second-in-command.

She was poring over the details of the map, and leaped back from the table, clearly surprised to see him.

“Just where do you think you are going?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

He approached. “Don’t lie to me. Everyone has been telling me, word for word, what you’ve been asking.”

She moved, keeping the table between them. “So now I’m not allowed to speak to the sailors?”

“Of course you are . . . unless you have ulterior motives.”

“Is that what they told you?” she asked, her violet eyes flashing at him. “That I have motives?”

“Nay, woman. If any of them said such a thing about you, I’d have thrown him overboard straightaway.” He moved in one direction, and she countered, keeping him away from her. “That’s what I concluded, knowing you so well.”

She snorted. “You don’t know me at all.”

Alexander was relieved she was still here, but they were playing a game of cat and mouse. And what a fool he’d been to think she was done playing runaway games.

“Know you? I know the trouble you’re about to get into before you even think of getting into it. Nay, wife. I know you very well.”

“Oh, so you’ve suddenly become brilliant. I can name a half dozen village idiots with more brains than you. And stop calling me ‘wife.’ Word of our annulment could come any day, thank the Lord.”

“Bloody hell, lass. Have you already forgotten that cave?”

She looked in the direction of the door. “No one knows anything about that.”

“I know and you know and God knows. And that bairn growing in your belly knows, too.”

“So you’re a midwife now, as well.” Her face flushed. “Bairns aren’t conceived so fast.”

“I suppose the Mother Superior told you that.”

They stopped circling the table, and Kenna shook her head. “You can’t keep me against my will. I’m telling you now that I wish to return to the priory.

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