Highland Conqueror (2005)
““Ye and I will marry as soon as I can find a priest.”
He did not look insane, Jolene thought as she struggled to break free of her shock. Yet, something had to have disordered his wits for him to say such a mad thing. Worse, he said it in much the same tone he might use to ask someone to pass the salt. Ask? He had not asked, he had stated it as if it was an already agreed-to fact.
Beneath her shock stirred anger, an anger roused by a hurt she did not really understand. Jolene told herself it wa...s just pinched vanity, ignoring the voice in her head that heartily scoffed at that pathetic explanation. There was no romance here. It was more a battle maneuver, something meant to block Harold. Later, she might consider it a most gallant gesture, but, at the moment she saw it as no better than being offered marriage for her lands or her dowry or her bloodlines. A sharp distaste for such alliances was one reason she was still a maid at three and twenty.
“That is quite unnecessary,” she said, “and I do not see the need for it.”MoreLess
He did not look insane, Jolene thought as she struggled to break free of her shock. Yet, something had to have disordered his wits for him to say such a mad thing. Worse, he said it in much the same tone he might use to ask someone to pass the salt. Ask? He had not asked, he had stated it as if it was an already agreed-to fact.
Beneath her shock stirred anger, an anger roused by a hurt she did not really understand. Jolene told herself it wa...s just pinched vanity, ignoring the voice in her head that heartily scoffed at that pathetic explanation. There was no romance here. It was more a battle maneuver, something meant to block Harold. Later, she might consider it a most gallant gesture, but, at the moment she saw it as no better than being offered marriage for her lands or her dowry or her bloodlines. A sharp distaste for such alliances was one reason she was still a maid at three and twenty.
“That is quite unnecessary,” she said, “and I do not see the need for it.”MoreLess
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Guest 2 years ago
The numerous relatives was really not necessary to the story -It just added to unecessary word count.
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