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There was no point in lingering in the past anymore. Nothing would change it, and finally, in almost a year’s time, he was ready to let it go. He felt the urge to feel, to love ... to live again.
He leaned his face close to hers and finished what he had stopped himself from saying, “I will always love you.”
Chapter 18
Trey was never so relieved to see the Pict sentinels drop from the trees when they crossed into Pict territory. True to her nature, Bliss inquired, through labored breath, to see if the farmers had arrived yet, and when she learned that they hadn’t, she attempted to speak again.
Trey stepped forward. “Bliss has been injured, and speaking only worsens the injury.”
The men looked at her with concern.
Trey was quick to reassure them. “She will heal, but she needs the rest to do so. And she will never rest if she continues to wonder why the farmers have yet to get here.”
One of the Picts said, “I’ll take some men and see what keeps them and offer whatever help is needed.”
Bliss smiled her appreciation at Langward, a young Pict warrior.
“Has Roan returned from seeing my family?” Trey asked.
“We expect him home in a few days,” Langward answered.
“Dolca?” Bliss asked.
Trey gave no time for an answer. He scooped her up. “After you heal yourself, then you can heal others.” He looked to Langward. “Would you see that Mary and her daughter Allena are given food and shelter?”
Langward nodded. “Of course.”
Then Trey walked over to Allena, held in her mother’s arms, her skinny arms wound tightly around her mother’s neck. “These are good people, Allena, and they will help you and your mum. You have nothing to fear. And I will be nearby if you need me.”
“Promise,” she asked, wide-eyed.
“I am at your service, m’lady.”
Allena giggled.
Langward escorted them away, and Trey, familiar with the area, went straight to Bliss’s cottage.
“I should at least—”
“Have the sense to know that you are useless to others if you have no strength to heal.”
He shoved her cottage door open with his shoulder and walked in. He sat her on her bed, and ordered, “Stay there.”
She smiled and nodded.
He shook his head. “Why is it that I think you are only placating me?”
Her smile widened, and she continued nodding.
He hunched down in front of her and grinned. “Move, and I’ll strip you bare and remove all your clothes from the cottage so you have no choice but to rest beneath the covers of your bed.”
She rested her warm hand on his cheek. “Would you join me?”
His groin tightened, and he could feel himself grow hard. He jumped up and walked to the door, though he stopped, turned, and pointed at her. “When you are well, nothing will stop me from making love to you.” And with that he walked out the door though not before grumbling that he was going to get firewood.
Bliss sighed and carefully stretched out on the bed. There was some pain but not as much as when she had lain on the hard ground. She was relieved to be home, safe in her cottage, where she would have no trouble healing herself.
There was peace in her home that she always found comforting, and it seemed even more so now that she was not alone. Not that being alone had bothered her, but knowing Trey would return shortly, build a fire, and look after her made her feel better already.
