True Love Brides 02 - the Highlander’s Curse
““Annelise met a suitor in the woods?” he repeated, certain that his opinion was more than clear. “Why was she even in the woods alone?”
“She went to the glade to pray.” Isabella smiled at her husband, clearly undaunted by his skepticism. “I met a suitor in the woods,” she reminded him. “It seems to me the marriage resulting from that encounter is working out rather well.”
“It was not the same,” Murdoch insisted. “And the first time I met you was in your brother’s keep. It was the second time we... met in the forest.”
Isabella waved off this detail. “I think she is quite smitten.”
Murdoch gave her a look. He was feeling the burden of his responsibility in taking Isabella’s sister into his care. He had pledged to his wife’s oldest brother, Alexander, Laird of Kinfairlie, that he would treat Annelise with as much care as if she were his own sister. Murdoch knew he would have frowned upon any sister of his having a courtship like that of himself and Isabella.MoreLess
“She went to the glade to pray.” Isabella smiled at her husband, clearly undaunted by his skepticism. “I met a suitor in the woods,” she reminded him. “It seems to me the marriage resulting from that encounter is working out rather well.”
“It was not the same,” Murdoch insisted. “And the first time I met you was in your brother’s keep. It was the second time we... met in the forest.”
Isabella waved off this detail. “I think she is quite smitten.”
Murdoch gave her a look. He was feeling the burden of his responsibility in taking Isabella’s sister into his care. He had pledged to his wife’s oldest brother, Alexander, Laird of Kinfairlie, that he would treat Annelise with as much care as if she were his own sister. Murdoch knew he would have frowned upon any sister of his having a courtship like that of himself and Isabella.MoreLess
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