A Price to Be Paid: A Scottish Highlander Romance (Legacy of the Laird Book 2) by Darcy Armstrong

Author:Darcy Armstrong [Armstrong, Darcy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-06T22:00:00+00:00

The stars were out overhead as they passed under the southern gate and back into Dun Lagaidh.

It had been a long day. Fynn had fallen asleep hours ago, and Mathe carried him gently in his arms. Her husband was still deceptively strong and didn’t waver or complain. Lilidh was sure that if she were carrying the boy, her arms would have dropped off miles ago.

The town was nearly empty as they made their way towards the west gate, and lit braziers cast flickering shadows on every wall. Lilidh didn’t often find herself walking the town after sunset and supposed that today had been a day of new experiences. For one brief, beautiful day, Lilidh had forgotten about everything else and just enjoyed the time spent with her family.

She shivered in the cool air at the memory, and once again asked herself the question that had played on her mind all afternoon.

Where did this end?

Mathe had once again reaffirmed his reasons for returning, and he spoke with such quiet determination that it would have been easy - oh, so easy - to believe him. To wrap herself in the comfort of knowing that her husband would take care of her and make things right. Only how did a person like MacBrennan ever make things right? The things he had done, and the person he became, were simply too vast to erase, too ingrained into the collective mind of the town.

And yet he was trying. She saw the way he acted with Fynn, and it made her heart ache. She saw how her son looked at Mathe when he wasn’t looking. She knew what was happening, right before her eyes, and it filled her with such a deep and terrible fear. Please dinnae leave again, she whispered in her mind. But was her silent plea for Fynn, or for herself? He looked at her in such a way that brought back memories of their youth, made her feel both warm and cold from the things unsaid in that gaze. She’d been alone for so long, that now Mathe had returned, she found herself with a growing longing for… something. His touch. His love. His body. Was it so strange for a woman to long for her husband?

“I enjoyed today,” Mathe said quietly to her.

“Aye,” Lilidh replied. “It was good for the lad.”

“Just the lad?”

She looked at him. “I suppose it was good for me, too.”

“Ye always did love the woods,” Mathe said. “I’m glad ye came.”

They stepped off the cobbled street and Mathe followed her across the planks of wood, balancing precariously with Fynn in his arms. They stepped onto the porch and Lilidh opened the front door. Then she turned back to Mathe, feeling suddenly shy. He stood and watched her in the darkness, and the dim light of the moon cut across his face and made shadows under his eyes.

“Ye're still so frail,” she said, reaching one hand up before she could stop herself. It grazed his cheek, and she felt the strange prickle of his beard.

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