"Don't worry about Dag—I tied rope around his bunk so he wouldn't fall out!" she cried above the wind, sputtering as a surging wave plastered her from head to toe with icy spray. "Oh, Jared, will we be able to outrun them?" If he hadn't been so angered that she'd defied his order, he might have s...
Niall was sleeping peacefully, so the huge Irishman kept his voice low. "I thought all of you might want to know, the O’Byrne’s back." Her heart lurching, Triona rose from the chair. "Ronan’s here?" "Aye, miss, and from the looks of it, there’s wounded among his men. I hope you can spare the heal...
Breathless, she bent over and rested her hands on her knees, her lungs burning as she inhaled great gasps of air. She always ran this last distance to the yew tree as hard as she could. It never failed to exhilarate her and clear her mind. She needed that more than ever tonight. She stood up, adj...
"Looks quiet as a tomb." "He's probably still sleeping, my lord. Jonathan Knill said he'd heard Pascoe was working the last core at Great Work mine, so he wouldn't have come home until after dawn." "I'm surprised the bastard was able to find work at all," Donovan said tightly as he dismounted and...
Camille was seated in the shade of a giant spreading oak, looking lovelier than any woman ought to in a sky-blue frock and matching straw hat, while sitting on the bench next to her, standing behind her, and kneeling on the ground at her feet were well over a dozen young men, planters' sons every...
God's blood, she was sore! Her slender back ached miserably, and the palms of her hands were blistered and raw. She stood up from the bench and stretched her arms wide above her head. "I gave you no permission to stop rowing, Garric," Hakon said sternly, walking up beside her. Dropping her arms t...
He acknowledged with a nod the two men-at-arms standing at Burnell's side. "No, my lord. Your lady has been as quiet as a mouse, and we've had no unwelcome visitors come this way." "Good. The ale and wine are still running freely in the hall, but take care you're all able to ride at dawn." "Aye, ...
What in heaven's name was the matter with him? She had expected him to be angry, gruff, hostile. When Rurik continued to smile at her, his appreciative gaze wandering over her lazily as he unfastened his sword belt and lay it upon the bench, she grew all the more bewildered, her blush creeping up...
The disheveled bed was empty beside her. She distantly remembered his whisper in her ear that he would return by midday, his last caresses, his tender kisses more a dream than conscious memory, she'd been sleeping so soundly. Still with her eyes closed, she brought her fingers to her lips, by tou...
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She buried her face against Duncan's shoulder as he shouted more orders to his men, her heart thundering that Ronan and her clansmen—and Niall too, was he out there?—were the cause of the uproar. How had they found her? Jesu, Mary, and Joseph, if Ronan's aim hadn't been so true and so timely, wou...