A Perfect Match by Bethany Hauck

Author:Bethany Hauck [Hauck, Bethany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7. He’s Alive

“He seems more alert today,” Flora McCabe told the women in the room where Ethan lay healing. With Lynsey’s help, she was changing the bandages and checking his wounds.

“He’ll be alright though, won’t he?” Lynsey asked. “There seems to be no infection anymore.”

“He’s lucky to be alive,” Flora told her, “but aye, I think he’ll be fine once he wakes.”

It’d been eight days since members of King James’ Guard brought the injured man to the Keep. They explained how Ethan woke briefly as the King’s healer tended his wounds and insisted on being taken to Gleann. The men who’d found him tried to ask questions, but the only information Ethan had been able to give was that they’d been attacked, and Craig was out there somewhere severely wounded.

“Do you think he might wake soon?” Jacqueline Fraser asked hopefully.

“I can’t say for sure, but he may,” Flora answered, grabbing Jacqueline’s hand. “Rory says Craig is alive, and I have hope as long as he believes it. Ham has told me stories about feeling things that happened to Ross. He says it’s a twin thing.”

“Aye, it is” Jacqueline agreed. She knew what Ham and Rory were talking about, she’d felt the same thing with James. “Rory is certain Craig isn’t dead, and it does help ease my worry, but not entirely. It’s been almost a fortnight, Flora. We don’t even know how badly he’s hurt.”

“And I’ll be the first one on a horse and riding toward him as soon as we know where he’s at,” Flora tried to assure her. “It’s possible someone else found him and is tending his wounds.”

“That’s what I’m hoping for,” Jacqueline said. “Da’s running out of places to look in the south. He’s had riders out all the way to Branxholme. He’s sent missives to every Keep between here and the Lowlands. Connor’s Da, Logan Stewart, and even Iain McCarthy have sent riders north, just in case. No one has seen him.”

“Is it possible the English found him?” Lynsey asked.

“Finley sent a missive with the riders that went to Branxholme for Cameron Scott. Cameron sent riders to all the English Estates near the border, and he sent back word yesterday that they haven’t seen him either,” Jacqueline explained.

“Don’t worry, Jacqueline,” Davina spoke up from the chair she sat in next to Ethan’s bed. “Hamish will not give up the search until he has answers and Craig’s been found.”

“I know, Davina,” Jacqueline said, smiling sadly.

Davina and her Da’s wedding was only a little over a sennight away, and if Craig wasn’t found it would need to be canceled. Jacqueline hoped that didn’t happen, her Da had been happier than she ever remembered seeing him since he returned from Jedburgh. It’d only lasted until Craig had gone missing, and since then she only saw worry and fear on her Da’s face.

“There’s a rider coming through the gates wearing the King’s colors,” Davina told them as she stood to stretch her legs and looked out the window.

“Do you think he brings any news?” Flora asked.

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