Pursued by a Dragon by Linda K. Hopkins EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Linda K. Hopkins
- ISBN: 978-1505430684
- Language: English
- Genre: Gothic Romances, Fantasy Romance
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- Page: 194
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Cathryn hurried down the muddy street, clutching her packages close to
her chest. It was raining, as it had been all week — a slow steady drizzle
that stole all color from the landscape and turned the road into a river of
sludge, churned by horses and carriages into six inches of mud. Cathryn’s
leather slippers were completely impractical for these conditions, despite
the wooden pattens she had laced onto their soles, and they were covered in
mud, as was the hem of her gown.
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She pulled her skirts up higher and
carefully adjusted the packages in her arms. It was at that precise moment
that a careless passerby, shoving through the unhappy throng, knocked her
off balance, sending one of her parcels spilling out of her arms, straight for
the mire. She grabbed at the package, but no sooner had she re-established
her grasp on it, than the other tumbled from her grip. Wrapped in coarse
hessian and string, it had almost reached the mud when a hand, stretching
from behind, snatched the package from its sorry fate.
Turning around,
Cathryn slowly raised her gaze to look into a pair of blue eyes, deep as
bottomless pools reflecting the wide expanse of the heavens. The man
towered over her, and although most people towered over Cathryn’s five
feet, two and a half inches, this man was well past six feet tall, and with a
broad chest to match. Adding to the impressiveness of his figure was a head
of blazing red hair, hanging loose to his shoulders. He was clean shaven,
but looked every bit of what Cathryn supposed a Viking would look like.
Not that she had ever seen one of the marauding barbarians, but like anyone
else in town, she had heard tales of the violence and sacrilege that had been
perpetrated by the invaders up and down the coastline in days gone by. She
stared at him, her mouth dropping open, as she took in his features.
“Are you all right, Mistress?” the man asked her gently, the concern in
his expression deepening. Cathryn blushed, suddenly aware of how rude, or
stupid, she must appear to this stranger. Snapping her mouth closed, she
nodded.
“Yes, thank you.”
“Where is your attendant?” The man glanced around, his gaze
searching out a careless servant, but when he found none, he turned
questioning eyes back to her.
Cathryn shrugged. “I am quite unattended.”
“It is not safe for a lady to walk these streets alone,” he responded,
concern creating furrows between thick, heavy eyebrows.
“Thank you for your concern, Sir, but my safety is my own affair!”
She paused for a moment to soften her tone before continuing. “Besides, it
is broad daylight, and I am well known to my fellow townsmen. I do not
believe they would do me harm.”
A look of surprise crossed the man’s face at Cathryn’s sharp retort, but
it quickly smoothed over, with just a hint of a grin lurking around his eyes.
“Ah, you may trust the townsmen, but what about strangers who
happen within the gates? Do you trust that you are safe with them abroad?
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