Silver Flame. Hannah Howell
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Название: Silver Flame
Автор: Hannah Howell
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Историческая литература
isbn: 9781420105865
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IN HIS BED
“Sine,” Gamel whispered, “how was I to ken that ye were a virgin?”
She looked at him with faint curiosity. “And would ye have let me be if ye had kenned it?”
“Nay,” he answered with quiet honesty as he eased the covers down her body.
“Then what matter? I am still in your bed through a bargain. I abide with you this night.” Catriona said this even as she inwardly cursed the heat which flickered to life within her as he lightly trailed his fingers over her breasts.
“Not just this night, Sine Catriona. Ye are mine.” Gamel bent his head to softly kiss the erect tip of each breast. “Ye are mine, Sine Catriona. Say it. Admit it,” he ordered, framing her face with his hands.
She knew he was right. She was his. She knew that bond would hold no matter who or what came into their lives.
“Aye,” she finally said. “Aye, I am yours…”
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Silver Flame
Published by Zebra Books
SILVER FLAME
HANNAH HOWELL
ZEBRA BOOKS
Kensington Publishing Corp.
http://www.kensingtonbooks.com
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
About The Author
Prologue
Scotland, 1380
Silently, cautiously, Sine Catriona Brodie led her half brothers, Beldane and Barre, toward the beckoning light of a small fire. She knew it was dangerous to approach a stranger’s camp, but she and the twins were hungry, cold, and afraid. The wood had been their hiding place for far too long, what sustenance they could find all too sparse for a young lass and growing three-year-olds. Sine Catriona could barely recall the last time they had slept with a fire to warm them, peacefully lost in their dreams. For them every shadow was an enemy.
But they could go no farther now. Driven by desperation, Sine Catriona studied the dark form of the man in front of the fire. His shoulder was to her, so she could see little—except that he was tall. Struggling to be brave, she left her brothers hidden in the shrubbery and stepped forward.
“We approach to request food and a place by your fire, kind sir,” she said.
The man turned and stared at her. One of his dark, long fingered hands rested on the hilt of a dagger but she did not immediately construe that as a threat. Whoever the man was he was handsome, gifted with all that was needed to make a woman swoon. Sine Catriona was young, barely twelve, but she knew that much. So too had she learned how much evil beauty could hide. However, he made no threatening move. Her hunger and that of her brothers persuaded her to take a gamble with him.
“Ye are welcome,” he answered in a deep, rich voice. “I have little but I sense that ’tis more than ye have tasted in many a day.”
“We are quite hungry, sir.” She motioned to her brothers to move closer to the fire.
“Twins?” he asked.
The boys nodded shyly. As they sat and introduced all three of themselves by their first names only, the man handed them some bread and cheese.
“No family name?”
“’Twould be best if our family name wasnae given,” Sine Catriona murmured.
“Child, while ye eat allow me to tell ye of myself. I am Farthing Magnus.”
“Farthing?” She frowned. “’Tis an odd name, sir.”
“My mother told me that a farthing was what it cost a mon to make me. My father was weel born. He tried СКАЧАТЬ