Five Unforgettable Knights (5 Medieval Romance Novels)
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Page chuckled at his choice of words, remembering she’d said something of the same to him some time ago. Following his gaze to the angry horde of Scotsmen chasing her father from their land, shouting curses and threats at his back, she giggled at the sight of them. Some part of her was sad to see her father “go, for he was her father, after all, but the greater part of her felt only relief.
“I love ye, lass,” Iain whispered in her ear, tightening the embrace. “Och, I’ve somethin’ for you,” he revealed, releasing her suddenly. He searched through the folds of his breacan and drew something from it. Embracing her once more from behind, he offered her the battered remains of a yellow crocus. Her yellow crocus. The one she’d discarded in anger. He’d somehow found it, and saved it for her. “The moment I laid ye down upon that bed o’ blossoms,” he told her, “I considered ye mine. But I wanted to hear from your own lips that ye considered me yours.”
Page was too overwhelmed to speak. “I am.” Tears welled in her eyes. “I do,” she cried softly.
“Say it again,” he urged her, squeezing her gently.
“I am,” she said with a contented sigh, “I am the MacKinnon’s bride.”
“That ye are,” he assured her. “And I’ll ne’er let ye regret it for the rest o’ your days. I’ll make ye happy, Page. I pledge to ye my love and my loyalty, and I wed thee here in the name of God.”
Loyalty, she could well believe. “Love?” she asked him. “Truly?”
He turned her about to face him. “Dinna ye doubt it, lass.” Grasping her arms, he shook her gently. “I love ye fiercely, truly, and gladly!” And then he kissed her upon the bridge of the nose.
“And I love you,” Page confessed. “I love you fiercely, truly, and gladly, too.” And she did, without fear or reservation.
He lifted her up without warning, and tossed her over his shoulders.
Page squealed in surprise. “What are you doing?” she demanded in feigned outrage.
“I’m takin’ ye home, lass... afore ye change your mind.”
She laughed.
“Anyway, I’m a savage Scot,” he reminded her. “We dinna want to be disappointin’ your da.”
Page laughed with scandalized delight.
“First,” he declared, “you’re gain’ to be seein’ to my son—assure him that ye live—and then I’m going to take ye to my bed... make ye sing me a sweet lullai bye.”
And that he did.
And that she did.
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Viking’s Prize
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Married at Midnight
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