The Lyon’s Surprise by Meara Platt EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Meara Platt
- Genre: Tudor Historical Romance, Victorian Historical Romance
- Publish Date: 22 April 2021
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Castle Lyon
Stonehaven, Scotland
August 1816
“THE BLACK WIDOW of Whitehall sent ye here?” Cheyne Lyon, Duke of Mar,
ran a hand through his hair and stifled an oath as he stared down at the
bedraggled young woman seated in the visitor’s parlor holding a wee bairn in
her arms.
“If you are referring to Bessie Dove-Lyon, then yes. Why do you call her
that? She was very kind to me in the brief time I was with her.” She appeared
tense, but the little lad slept peacefully, wrapped in a protective blanket and
apparently unaffected by the storm now raging outside. Not even the violent
rattling of the windows in Castle Lyon, this ancient stone fortress Cheyne
called home, seemed to wake the small bundle in her arms.
He frowned at her. “Och, lass. What is yer name again? Ye say ye are my
brother’s wife?”
“I’m Jenny. I have a letter, Your Grace.” She spared a glance at her
reticule before immediately returning her gaze to him, as though afraid to let
down her guard around him. Well, he did have a way of striking fear in others
with merely a scowl. It wasn’t his intention to frighten the lass, but she’d
caught him by surprise, showing up on his doorstep just as the storm
unfolded in all its fury.
She was soaked to the skin, but there was a fey aura about her that
captured his attention and would not let go. She reminded him of a selkie
swept ashore in a storm. Indeed, there was an ethereal quality about her that
he could not define. Or was it merely exhaustion he’d noticed in her gaze?
He could see she was struggling to hold herself together and not show
vulnerability or fatigue. It was merely three o’clock in the afternoon, but
she’d obviously had a long journey and was not going to make it through the
day without giving in to the need to rest.
“Ah, Jenny. A letter, you say? That ought to clear everything up.” He
arched a dubious eyebrow, wondering what hogswallop his brother had
written. Got myself into a bit of a mess, Cheyne. Dumping it on your
doorstep, as always.
Or was the letter from the Black Widow herself? As though he would
ever trust her. They were related, but only by marriage, and he hadn’t seen
the woman in ages. If he wished to be honest about, and not his surly self, she
had been kind to him back then.
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