up the steeply shelving shore, then Eoin gathered some wood and made a fire, by which Freya huddled gratefully, spreading her skirts to dry.
Beside her, Eoin was quite unaffected by the weather. Leaning back on his elbows, he looked at Freya afresh. Three months, she had been away from her kinfolk, yet she seemed remarkably self-possessed. “Did they harm you?” he asked.
Freya shrugged. “When they first captured me they threatened to, if I did not submit. But the Earl of Tarbert knows as well as I do that a marriage without consent can easily be annulled.”
“You seem well versed in the laws of matrimony.”
“As an heiress, I’ve little choice. I’m twenty years old, and I feel like I’ve spent my life being pursued, by both fair means and foul. A bride with a bounty such as mine is irresistible, it seems.”
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