Sexy Scot by Cecelia Mecca

Author:Cecelia Mecca [Mecca, Cecelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781946510563
Publisher: Cecelia Mecca

17

Alban had seen them.

And was walking toward them with a grimace that would have made Ross proud. Marian stepped forward, prepared to apologize and beg forgiveness for such untoward behavior.

“Before you say anything, she’s no longer betrothed. We head straight for Hallstead Manor.” Greyson’s words did not invite a response.

“If we do not take her to the Earl of Fife . . .” Alban’s words trailed off as he looked from her to Greyson.

That’s what freedom means. You can do whatever the hell you want.

It sounded so sweet, but at what cost? For she had no doubt both her father and the Scottish earl would look for her. If either found her, Marian might wish for death instead of the punishment she would find for abandoning her duty.

A duty she’d never wanted.

Or asked for.

But one that had hung over her for as many years as she’d been alive.

“My lady?”

Alban could likely sense her hesitation. But he mistook the reason for it. Despite the danger, Marian would risk everything for the chance to feel as she had at Quinting Castle. As she did with Greyson’s lips pressed to hers.

She hesitated because of something else Greyson had said.

Say what you’re feeling, Marian, and make no apologies.

Marian had been about to do just that. Sharing a kiss with a man not her husband, or even her betrothed, was that not wrong? Marian was unsure what to say even if she owed no explanation.

“I wish to accompany you to Hallstead Manor,” she said finally.

With a shake of his head, Alban walked away, leaving them alone again. Silently, they led their horses away from the river bank and toward the road.

“We’ll figure this out together,” Greyson said. And she’d never liked a word better than she liked that one. Together.

Marian could feel her cheeks warming as she looked at him.

In response, he winked at her just before they emerged from the thicket. For the remainder of the day, Marian alternated from panicked moments imagining her father’s reaction when he learned she had not made it to Duncan to elation at the thought of not having to marry a man with such a horrible reputation.

And then there was Greyson.

By the time they reached the outskirts of the village of Kenfern, Marian knew more about this man from another time. Riding well behind the others across mostly flat marshland, they’d spoken easily well into the night.

He told her of his family, of the city where he was from. Of his father’s business, which had been passed to the sons, and the toll his mother’s disappearance had taken on all of them. But there were things Greyson did not say that Marian learned anyway.

He loved his family very much. Though he spoke of disagreements with each of them, Greyson obviously adored them all. Worry for them overshadowed even his fear at having been tossed into a time not his own. Finding his mother and brother, returning to his father—those were the only things that mattered to him.

How, precisely, did she fit into his plans?

“It looks like a movie set.

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