Submit to the Warrior by March Tatiana

Author:March, Tatiana [March, Tatiana]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-02-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Morag curled her fingers around the fluffy white covers and fought to calm her jittery nerves. The room closed in on her and, despite the fire crackling in the hearth, chills crept along her skin.

It’s over. Never again. She repeated the words in her mind and prayed for them to be true. She knew too little about the male sex. How could it be that one man with soft features and golden hair possessed a hidden core of cruelty, while another man, whose reputation for fierceness spanned the whole of Scotland, treated her with kindness?

Was Navarro’s gentle manner a lie? Did he conspire to hide his true nature from her, until the lands she brought into the marriage were safely his? Would the quantities of wine and whisky he had consumed reveal a streak of violence, a cruel need to dominate?

Heavy footsteps thudded up the stairs, and every nerve in Morag’s body grew tense.

In a few moments, she would find out.

Without a knock to warn her, the door flew open, the draft sending the candlelight flickering. She had lit a dozen tall tapers, scattered on every surface—the table beside the bed, the chest by the window and the shelves high up on the opposite wall.

Navarro glanced around the room. His gaze lingered on the wasteful display of light, but he offered no comment as he crossed the floor to the chair in the corner. With a heavy sigh, he sank upon the cushioned seat.

‘Did you drink many toasts?’ Morag asked, fear constricting her throat.

‘No.’ Navarro began to disrobe. He didn’t look in her direction. ‘My groan was one of fatigue, not of intoxication,’ he told her. ‘The second day after the battle is when the aches and pains catch up with you. My bones are weary, but my mind is sound.’

He proved his words by removing the doublet and shirt with ease and dropping them on the floor beside the chair. Light and shadow danced on the bare skin of his arms and chest, adding to the play of muscle beneath. The coal-black hair that skimmed his shoulders blended with the night, catching fiery glints as he leaned down to unfasten his shoes. Silent, he stood and stripped away his hose and braies, releasing his straining manhood to rise up from the dark thatch of curls at his groin.

Fully naked, he set out to tour the room, starting to snuff out the candles. Morag halted him. ‘No. Leave them burning.’ She pushed aside the covers and got out, her bare toes curling against the cold floor.

Navarro grew still where he stood, bent over the oak chest by the narrow window that had been covered with a thick fur pelt against the winter frosts. Slowly, he straightened and turned to face her. His brows rose in an unspoken question.

Morag took a deep breath, and then she crossed her forearms beneath her breasts and lifted the nightgown over her head. Standing bare before him, she released her grip on the garment, discarding it to float down to the floor behind her.

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