Spellbound by the Angui (Cipher's Kiss Book 2): A Scottish Highlander Time Travel Romance by Walker Heather

Author:Walker, Heather [Walker, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Published: 2019-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Louis combed his fingers through Ellen’s hair. The first streaks of gentle dawn danced on the water outside the windows, but he didn’t want to move. Her silken body breathed against him under the quilt. He wouldn’t trade this moment for another day of life.

She gave an involuntary spasm and started out of his arms, then spun back to stare at him. Stark horror marred her features. He never saw that look in her eyes before, and it scared him.

“It’s all right, lass.” He raised his hand to drape a stray strand of hair behind her ear. “It’s all right. Ye’re safe here.”

She smacked his hand away hard enough to startle him. “Don’t touch me!”

His eyes flew open. He saw her face change in an instant when she realized what she’d done.

She blurted out, “God, I’m so sorry.”

The next instant, she rocketed out of bed and snatched her dress off the floor. She kept her back to him and talked a mile a minute. “I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have done that. I gotta get out of here.”

He lay back on the pillow and watched her shoulders move while she pulled on her stockings. Whatever was bothering her, trying to get it out of her now would only make the problem worse. He could have been looking at a female version of himself. Nothing could be worse for both of them, no matter how much they wanted each other. Whatever it was, she better go now. They both knew it, so why fight it?

She got her stockings tied and her shift over her head and put on her corset before she cast a sidelong glance his way. “Would you please…would you mind lacing me up?”

She sat with her back to him while he tightened the laces, but he still didn’t say anything. What could he say? One more night, and now it was over. Now they both had to bite the bullet and do what they knew was best. She would go home, and he would stay here to fantasize about her for the next three hundred years—maybe longer.

When he finished, she pulled her dress over her head and tied the laces. Only then did she turn around to face him. “I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have done that. I…I just had a dream, and when I woke up, I didn’t know where I was. Can you forgive me?”

He cocked his head to one side and combed his hair out of his face. “Do ye have a man back home, lass?”

Her head whipped around, and her black hair flew across her cheeks. “What?”

“Do ye have a man back home? Ye keep saying nothing could happen between us. I just wondered.”

She looked away. “No. I don’t have a man back home.”

“But ye’ve had men before, I reckon,” he went on. “Ye couldnae do what ye do in bed if ye didnae have some experience.”

She spun around again, and this time, he didn’t like the expression on her face one bit. She snarled at him in pure murderous hatred.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.