Bedding the Highlander by Sabrina York

Author:Sabrina York
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2017-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

Bollocks.

Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks.

Och, it was so infuriating to be held captive.

Kate wasn’t sure why her fury blinded her, but she had a suspicion. Men had treated her with nothing but callousness her entire life. She knew what they were to their core. She’d been such a fool to imagine this one would be different.

But he’d been so gentle with her that night in the cave. Sweet, tender, and—dare she say it?—loving. Somewhere in the back of her mind, though she’d tried to resist it, she’d started hoping he might actually care for her.

What a laugh.

The man didn’t give a fig for her feelings or her discomfort. The rope around her wrists chafed, her bottom ached from hours in the saddle, and she was hungry and needed, very badly, to relieve herself. But when she mentioned these things, he ignored her pleas.

To make matters worse, with each mile they came closer and closer to her fate, her anxiety rose. She was possessed with worry about what might happen when they reached Rannoch.

Och, aye, she did look forward to making her brash revelation when Kirk introduced “Katherine Killin” to his brother. Though she couldn’t wait to see the horror in his eyes when he realized the woman he’d debauched was his brother’s bride.

What worried her was what would come next.

Her father, faced with such an admission of betrayal, would throw her from the highest window of the tower. Judging from what she’d heard about the Beast of Rannoch, she would be lucky to get away with a whipping. And then what, if they didn’t execute her? When she was of no use to them, what would they do?

Turn her out? Force her to make her way to Tummel on her own? That wouldn’t be so bad…which made it a highly unlikely outcome.

More likely, they would force her to work as a servant in the castle, as her father had done with the women he’d stolen. Her father and his men had used those women for other purposes, as well. Kate shuddered at the thought.

She didn’t fancy being handed round the Rannoch men, one after the other.

But she worried about Elise’s fate even more. It devastated her that her sister was in this predicament because of her. She’d asked Elise to come along. And now, they would share a dismal destiny.

Unless they escaped.

They had to escape.

Their very lives depended upon it.

And thus she resolved to attempt it that night, while the men were sleeping.

When they stopped to make camp, Kate caught Elise’s eye and sent her a speaking glance. Her sister nodded. She understood. They suffered through a miserable dinner—though Brodie had brought in a brace of rabbits—and then the men began preparing their pallets. It fell to them to do all the work, because they’d refused to untie her and Elise.

When it came time to bed down, she realized they’d not made four pallets. They’d made one, covered with the hated Rannoch plaid. It was set close to a tree, which was unusual, but the reason for the tree became clear soon enough.

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