The Perfect Seduction by Margo Maguire

Author:Margo Maguire
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Medieval
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Darkness fell and Kathryn felt restless, more pent up than she'd ever felt before. 'Twas Edric's touch, his kiss, that had done it, had made her feel as though tiny moths were fluttering at her skin and in her belly. Pacing did not help. Finally enlisting Gwen's assistance, she left a sleeping Aidan with the housemaid in the nursery and went in search of Lora.

Kathryn hoped to find her in Lord Bryce's chamber, so she went to the young man's room and found him awake with his guard napping in a chair beside him. But Lora was not there.

Bryce waved her inside. He woke the guard and sent him away. " Tis past time for you to relieve yourself, is it not, Alf ?"

The guard took his leave and Kathryn sat in the chair beside the bed, glad of a diversion. She had to put all her yearnings aside for they were mere foolishness. "How do you feel?"

"As though someone ran me through with a steely blade," he quipped.

"Aye, but are you improved at all?"

"Are you worried about your handiwork?" Bryce asked.

Kathryn gave a nod, but when Bryce threw off his blanket and started to lift his sherte, she looked away. "I'd rather not see it, my lord. I would be satisfied with hearing how it mends."

He gave her a wicked grin. "I forgot about your delicate stomach."

Kathryn doubted it, but knew he was just toying with her. "So… how is it?"

"Sore. Hot. Sometimes Lora makes a face when she tends the wound, and I know she's concerned about the fever that comes and goes. She worries too much." He shrugged and covered himself again. "But tell me—have you no faith in your own handiwork?"

"Since I'd never sewn a man before… No."

"Truly?"

She shook her head. "Your brother bullied me into it."

"Edric? Bully you?"

She heard the sarcasm in his tone but refused to play his game. "Is it true you refused last rites?"

Bryce looked down.

"My lord, if your condition should change—"

"Do not preach to me, Kate. I have enough with the damned priest and my overbearing brother."

"I apologize. I did not mean to lecture you. Tis only that I fear for—"

"I am not close to death, Lady Kate."

Kathryn's breath quickened. "What did you call me?"

"Merely jesting with you," he said, brushing off her question. "Lora said you ordered our furnishings brought here from the old keep."

She felt her face heat. "Was I too presumptuous?"

"Not at all, though Edric might be opposed at first. But since he does not intend ever to wed again, there will be no wife to order new furnishings. He'll soon see we need to make use of what we have."

Kathryn winced. "Was his marriage so very bad, then?"

"Bad? The only time the two of them conversed was when Cecily screamed at him in her godawful gibberish. Oh, sorry."

"And did he shout back?"

"Not usually. He spent as much time as possible away from here. Fortunately, Aidan was conceived quite soon after the nuptials."

Kathryn felt her face heat. She

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