Read The Rogue Online

Authors: Lindsay Mckenna

Tags: #Contemporary, #General, #Romance, #Fiction, #Fiction - Romance, #Romance: historical, #Historical, #Romance: Regency, #Non-Classifiable, #Romance - General, #Romance & Sagas, #Adult, #Mercenary troops

The Rogue

"
It's my nature not to talk
, "
Killian
 
warned.

"It does take courage to talk," Susannah agreed, gathering her own. It would take courage to get to the root of his problem with her. "It's easier to button up and retreat into silence," she challenged more firmly,

"Let's drop this conversation."

Susannah stood in the doorway, feeling the tension radiating from around him. Her mouth grew dry. "No."

The one word, softly spoken, struck him solidly. "I learned a long time ago to say nothing. I'm a man with a lot of ugly secrets, Susannah. Secrets I'm not proud of. They're best left unsaid."

"I don't agree," she replied gently.

Killian lifted his chin and stared deeply into her luminous gray eyes. The need to confide, to open his arms and sweep her against him, was painfully real. But Killian didn't dare tell her the raw, blatant truth—that he wanted her in every way imaginable.

To my husband, David,
who
has stuck with me through thick and thin,
making
each year better than the last.

THE ROGUE

Copyright © 1993 by Lindsay McKenna

All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including xerography, photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, is forbidden without the permission of the publisher, Silhouette Books, 300 E. 42nd St., New York, N.Y. 10017

ISBN: 0-373-09824-3

First Silhouette Books printing July 1993

All the characters in this book have no existence outside the imagination of the author and have no relation whatsoever to anyone bearing the same name or names. They are not even distantly inspired by any individual known or unknown to the author, and all incidents are pure invention.

®: Trademark used under license and registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries.

CLS

Printed in the U.S.A.

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