Bound to the Highlander by Kate Robbins

Author:Kate Robbins
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Highland
Published: 2013-12-03T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“You know, Brother, a wise man once said ‘Patience is virtue high’. Who was that again?” Calum asked with a lazy smile.

“Chaucer, as you well know.” He’d informed Aileana he would collect her after the morning meal and now wished he’d said crack of dawn. Waiting shred his patience. James paced.

“Indeed. You may wish to heed his advice.”

“What the hell does he know? He’s English. Quit your riddles and speak your mind!”

“You are troubled about the lady you’re anxious to collect, whom you wish to discard. I wonder why you appear agitated. Have you changed your mind about keeping her?”

“Changed my…what? Of course not. This business would have been concluded by now had you not interfered.”

Calum had insisted James was in total denial over the lass and anyone who saw them in a room together would come to the same conclusion. The king and queen were quite in love themselves and so played into Calum’s game. It was well and good for the king and his lady to enjoy their romance, but Calum had no business implying there was anything between him and Aileana Chattan. A love match indeed. How absurd.

“Ahhh, but then you would have no excuse to see her again,” Calum said.

“Don’t you mean you would have no excuse to see the witch?”

“Do not call her that.”

“Oh. Hit a nerve have I? Serves you right for shoving your gigantic nose into places it doesn’t belong.” James grinned when Calum’s hands flew to his nose.

“Well that aside, one day you will thank me for my interference and for pointing out what a prodigious ass you’ve been.”

James stopped pacing and glared.

“I see you like to dabble with your life, Brother. That line you enjoy dancing around becomes thinner by the second.”

“Very well. Let me speak plain if you will hear it.”

James folded his arms across his chest. “This should be good.”

“I am not jesting when I say Aileana Chattan is an incredible woman. I don’t understand why you insist on making her out to be something she is not. For God’s sake, James. Open your eyes and see what you have before you. When was the last time a woman preoccupied you the way she does? Ever? Do not try to tell me she does not stir you because I have watched you when she is near. You can scarce look elsewhere. And yes, I have discussed this with Gwen.”

James huffed.

“Scoff all you like, but I can tell you with certainty the lass is just as affected by you.”

“The maid told you this?” It shouldn’t matter, but somehow it did.

“Yes, but the lady has just as much doubt about you. Perhaps even more.”

“What doubt?” James had a vague sense of being caught in a sticky web.

“She thinks you’re arrogant.”

“Pffffff.”

“Self-centreed.”

“Ridiculous.”

“Irrational.”

“That’s enough.”

“Insensitive.”

“I said that’s enough.”

“Pigheaded.”

“Calum!”

“Dim-witted.”

“Enough!”

Calum stopped speaking. That he wasn’t smiling added no comfort. Damn but the words made James feel like a heel. All he needed to do was present the lass, show how incompatible they were and he’d be done with it.

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