Amanda McCabe – Shipwrecked and Seduced (страница 3)

“Summon more servants, and the surgeon,” he told Feuonmayor. “She should be taken at once to a chamber and looked after. I am sure Governor Augusto would far prefer to be presented with her alive.”

The servants scurried to do his bidding, carrying the lady away as he paid off the sailors and warned the governor and his lackeys to say nothing yet about their new houseguest.

By the time Carlos finished his business and made his way to the woman’s chamber, she was dressed in a clean chemise and tucked into bed by the maidservants.

It was one of the fortress’s finest rooms, a bower of red and gold hangings usually reserved for visiting grandees. The young woman seemed a bit lost in the midst of the vast bed, but her eyes were open at last. She held a silver goblet tightly between her hands as one of the maids brushed and braided her hair.

She stared down into the dark red depths of the wine, as if she hoped to read something writ there. An answer to some perplexing puzzle.

Carlos knew the feeling very well.

“Señorita,” he said gently, slowly approaching the bed. There seemed something delicate about her, as if she was a bird poised to plunge into flight at the slightest sound.

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