Awakening his Highland Soul by Maddie MacKenna

Author:Maddie MacKenna [MacKenna, Maddie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Highland
Published: 2020-04-25T16:00:00+00:00

Beatrice looked up as a resounding knock reverberated through the heavy wooden door. She was all a flutter, and the sudden noise caused her to jump where she stood by the hearth, staring into the coals of the fire.

I need to stay calm. Perhaps there is a way for me to figure out how to keep all parties happy–though, by God, if there is then I do not see it…To me, it all looks quite hopeless.

“Yes?” she asked, her voice quavering more than a little.

Jeames stepped through the door and closed it behind him. There was a fire in his eyes, his usually amiable face contorted in a frown, his mouth a grim line.

Summoning every particle of her confident stage persona, Beatrice hitched a grin onto her face and said, “I see your father tried to talk some sense into you.”

Jeames scowled more darkly at her.

“I’m glad that the two of ye find this all so amusin’,” he snapped at her.

With a suddenness that made the weather in the Scottish Highlands such a byword, a wind swept up from the moors with a shrieking howl and rain lashed the sides of the castle.

Quite the sense of dramatic timing. What William would give to be able to have thunder roll at his command, to harness Nature’s drumroll.

“I’m not glad that any of this happening, thank you so very much, Mr. Abernathy,” she replied icily.

The sunlight, which had been streaming so contentedly through the open window, was cut off as clouds rolled across the valleys. Rain started to spot the inside of the floor where it was blown in by the gusting wind.

“Nae glad about it? Ye could have fooled me, the way that ye seem so unbothered by the way things seem tae be headin’.”

“Unbothered? How could I be unmoved by the fact that I’m soon going to have to leave this place–your home, that you so graciously opened to me? I will miss it more than you can say. I can’t remember when I was last happier!”

To her surprise, Beatrice found that her amused indignation had changed to vexed anger.

I am leaving. I must distance myself from Jeames over the next few days. It will make the final goodbye all the easier.

Giving her voice a slightly more frigid and impersonal edge, Beatrice said, “And, really, can you blame me for becoming so attached to this place?”

“What d’ye mean by that?” Jeames asked.

“Well, you’ve been so charming, so pleasant. It hasn’t really been fair. Not only have I been wooed by the beauty of this castle and land, but I find myself falling in–becoming rather…fond of you, if you must know.”

Jeames looked to all the world as if he had just been hit in the face with something hard. He blinked a couple of times.

Beatrice, finding herself in somewhat of a groove, stepped forward and said, “You could have left me for the physician to care for. For one as enchanting as you, it would have been the kind thing. Especially as you are betrothed! But no, instead you had to muddle my head.

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