A Highlander's Scars (Highland Heartbeats Book 11) by Aileen Adams

Author:Aileen Adams [Adams, Aileen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

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If Fenella could only have one more moment with Ewan Ross, she would have struck him hard enough to turn his face inside out.

How dare he run away, again? Donnan could pretend all he wanted that it meant little, but she saw through him as she’d been able to see through people her entire life.

It pained him in some deep, secret place he tried hard to keep away from others.

He could not know how she’d listened, straining to hear what they said to each other. Her curiosity had been too much to overcome. They’d been downwind, sadly, but she’d heard a bit about their father and how Ewan ought to visit.

She supposed that was what inspired him to leave without saying a word.

There was something else she’d thought she heard, or half-heard, having to do with herself. Perhaps she’d fallen asleep and merely dreamed it.

If Ewan had truly told Donnan how she’d been in love with him when they were children, the man did not show it. He was his normal brusque self when they set out.

Then again, how did a man behave when he found out a woman was in love with him as a child? She would not know.

“He did tell his friends they would meet up in a day or two,” she reminded him in an attempt to be helpful.

He rode beside her, his hood up as it normally was, hiding his face from her. The fact that he still felt the need to hide tore her nerves to shreds. Did he not know he could trust her by now?

“Did ye hear me?” she asked.

“Of course, I heard ye. I did not lose my hearing overnight.”

It was a struggle, not flying into a rage whenever he spoke that way. She’d always had a quick temper—one of her faults, she could admit, but Donnan did not merely inspire her to snap. He inspired her to scream.

“Ye might answer me, then,” she muttered.

“I dinna wish to speak of my brother. Ye dinna need to comfort me. I have learned to expect little from him. Aye, I’m certain he wished to meet with his friends.” Disdain all but dripped from his voice.

“I will not speak of him again.”

“I will not complain about it.”

She rolled her eyes with a soft sigh, wondering again why he insisted upon being so difficult to know. It seemed that whenever he opened himself even the smallest bit and gave her a glimmer of hope that their journey might be a pleasant one, he would recall having resolved to behave like a brute.

Her instincts were something she’d always prided herself on. Why could she not understand him better? He gave her no peace.

“If ye are this difficult to agree with, it’s glad I am we were never married, after all,” she mused aloud.

Donnan sounded as though he were choking. “Say that again.”

She turned to him, wide-eyed. “I said—”

“I heard what ye said, lass,” he scowled, the lines of his mouth visible beneath the hood he insisted upon wearing.

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