Tamed By a Laird (GALLOWAY TRILOGY #1) by Amanda Scott EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Annandale, Scotland, March 1374
Seventeen-year-old Janet, Baroness Easdale of that Ilk— but Jenny
Easdale to her friends and family—tried to ignore the hamlike hand on her
right thigh belonging to the man to whom, hours earlier, she had pledged
her troth. To that end, she intently studied the five jugglers performing in
the space before the dais in Annan House’s great hall, trying to decide
which might be her maidservant’s older brother.
Since Jenny’s betrothed was drunk and she had no information about
Peg’s brother other than that he was a juggler in the company of minstrels
and players entertaining the guests at her betrothal feast, her efforts so far
had proven futile.
All five jugglers wore the short cote-hardies and vari-colored hose
favored by minstrels of many sorts and not one had a mop of red curls like
Peg’s. Jenny could find little to choose between them.
Reid Douglas squeezed her thigh, making it harder to ignore him.
Two fools in whiteface—one tall, one as short as a child and bearded—
chased each other, creating havoc among the jugglers, who nonetheless
deftly kept their colored balls in the air.
“Give me a kiss,” Reid muttered much too close to Jenny’s right ear,
slurring his words. “ ’Tis my right now, lass, and I’ve had none o’ ye yet.”
She glanced at him, fighting to hide her revulsion and disdain. He was
four years older than she was and handsome, she supposed, with his stronglooking body, softly curling brown hair, and chiseled Douglas features. And
doubtless all men got drunk occasionally. But she had not chosen Reid and
did not want him.
However, Lord Dunwythie and his lady wife, Phaeline, had made it
plain that Jenny’s opinion did not matter in the selection of her husband.
Dunwythie, her uncle by marriage, was also her guardian. Had her father
still been alive…
“Come now, Jenny, kiss me,” Reid said more forcefully, leaning so near
that she feared he might topple over and knock her right off her back-stool.
His breath stank of ale and the spicy foods he had eaten.
She stiffened, bracing herself.
“What’s this?” he demanded, frowning. “Now ye’re too good for me,
are ye? Faith, but I’ll welcome the schooling of ye after we’ve wed.”
Meeting his gaze, she put her hand atop the one on her thigh, wrapped
her fingers around his middle one, and bent it sharply upward. “Pray, sir,”
she said politely as he winced and snatched his hand away, “have the
goodness to wait until after the wedding to make yourself so free of my
person. I like it not.”
“By my faith, ye’ll pay for such behavior then,” he snapped, putting his
face too close to hers again. “Just a month, Jenny lass, three Sundays for the
banns, then six days more, and I become Baron Easdale of Easdale. Think
well on that.”
“You are mistaken,” she said. “Although others may address you then as
‘my lord,’ I will remain Easdale of Easdale. My father explained long ago
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