Wild Hearts by Virginia Henley EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Virginia Henley
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- Genre: Historical Romance
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Paris Cockburn sat at the top of Cockburnspath Castle in the Master Tower,
one of the turret towers that stood at each corner of the square stronghold,
as befitted his new status as laird of his clan. He had recently inherited his
father’s royal appointment as one of the wardens of the Scottish borders,
and now he wondered ruefully how that title, representing law and order, sat
with his clansmen.
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Ah, well, he resolved, a Borderer owed allegiance to his laird before the
King of Scots when all was said and done. And Jamie had deserted them for
the crown of England when Queen Elizabeth had named him heir, just
before she conveniently died.
Paris Cockburn frowned, his dark eyebrows slanting over dark green
eyes in surprising contrast to his thick red hair. A slight hook in the nose
and prominent cheekbones gave him a look of arrogance. His mouth, set in
grim lines as it was now, made him look considerably older than his twentyfive years. Clad only in an open shirt that revealed the thickly corded
column of his neck and dark red mat of chest hair, dark pants and knee-high
boots, he did not feel the coldness of the tower room.
He gazed with unseeing eyes across the stone stanchion that formed a
windowsill to frame the clouds hanging low and heavy over the North Sea.
The screams of the Arctic terns did not penetrate his concentration; neither
did the sea swallows as they darted about like little demons with forked
tails. The Mangler lay at his feet. She was part mastiff, part wolf; an ugly
bitch but worth her weight in gold.
Paris found he couldn’t help reliving those terrible moments two months
back when he had found his father’s body broken on the cobblestones of the
inner keep, where he had fallen from the battlements of the Black Tower.
He closed his eyes to banish the tears of pain the recent death still brought
him. He clenched his fists in frustration at the unanswered questions that
plagued him. Why had it happened when the family was miles away in
Edinburgh? Why were there no witnesses to the accident, or at least none
who would come forward. Was it murder?
He shook his head to dispel his
suspicions. His father had had a lame leg, a wound he’d taken years back on
a punitive raid on the lands of the Gordon, their hated enemies. However,
Paris could not quite accept that a man with the quickness and vigor that
Lord Angus Cockburn had possessed would slip and fall.
His new load of responsibility would be no heavier really, as Angus had
allowed him to take charge in all but name for the last several years. Paris
had come up to the Master Tower to go over the account books, one of the
few tasks Angus had insisted upon doing alone. As he began he chided
himself for letting two months elapse before tackling the heretofore
“confidential” journals. Here were the lists of “Blackmail”— rent paid in
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