A Highlander's Destiny by Mayhue Melissa

Author:Mayhue, Melissa [Mayhue, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781439144213
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2009-12-29T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

“What the hell are you doing over there?”

Jesse had watched for the last five minutes as Robbie sat propped against the large red boulders, the fingers of one hand moving rapidly in the air while he pumped his elbow up and down.

“I’m playing the pipes in my imagination. Taking myself to another place while we wait out the boredom here. I’m more of an action man, you ken? I’ve never learned to like the sit-and-wait part of this job.”

Jesse shook his head and snuck another look around the rock they hid behind.

In the drop-off below them sat the black sedan they’d followed, obviously waiting for something.

Or someone?

It was whatever they waited for that interested Jesse. What the hell could they possibly be planning out here in the freaking-hot middle of nowhere?

He and Robert had hiked in to this location, leaving their vehicle hidden about half a mile away. Sound traveled out here and bringing the SUV any closer could have given their location away. Stealth and surprise were about all they had on their side at the moment.

Through his field glasses, he could clearly see Dermond Tyren in the driver’s spot, his seat pushed back. Less clearly, he could just make out two figures in the backseat.

Leah and the redhead.

They’d determined right away that there was too much open ground around the car for them to hope for any kind of a successful surprise attack. A frontal assault on the auto would either result in harm to the girl or, more likely, Dermond burning rubber and leaving them in his dust.

So they waited. Waited to see what the people holding Leah had planned next.

“I suppose I may have mentioned once or twice before I’m no much a man for the desert heat.” Robbie wiped sweat from his forehead without opening his eyes.

“Once or twice.” Jesse couldn’t say he was all that fond of it, either. He’d much rather be on that sweet little spread he’d bought for himself in the highlands of Scotland. “You’ll have to remember your discomfort when we finally get to chat with our friends down there.”

“Oh, I’m no likely to forget it. I think of it each time I take a peek at that bastard with my fine friend here.” He patted the rifle with scope lying across his legs. “And then I think on the poor wee lassie they’re holding in that auto with them. Oh, I’ll have plenty on my mind when we finally get to chat with the lot of them.”

They both would. This wasn’t the sort of experience even the most mature sixteen-year-old would get over easily. The Nuadians holding Leah needed to pay for what they’d done.

Too bad Dermond hadn’t gotten out of the car to give Robert and his “friend” a clear shot. They couldn’t risk the chance of bulletproof glass. That would only warn the Fae they were here.

“Though sitting down there in that car with the air conditioning on is certainly a much better way to spend a day in this heat, beautiful though this place may be.

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