Broden_A Scottish Time Travel Romance by Hazel Hunter

Author:Hazel Hunter [Hunter, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 48127731
Published: 2019-09-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

COLLECTING HIS SNARES gave Broden welcome solitude and silence, but no peace. He shouldn’t have left the stronghold, not after seeing Kiaran’s wounds. His need to avoid Mariena had been so pressing that he’d ignored his brother’s pain and imprudence. Still, with a glance he knew what the falconer had done. Although it sickened him, he also understood why Kiaran had wished to maim himself. He still could not look at his own hands without remembering how he’d hurt the woman of his dreams.

That he had remembered it immediately after taking Mariena as his lover made it only more agonizing.

After he retrieved the last of his snares he would stow them in the stables and go out on patrol, but he couldn’t ride the boundary forever. When he returned for the evening meal he would have to face Mariena again. Never had he been a coward, but he’d rather take a blade to his gut than sit near her and eat in silence. Yet what could he say?

Tell her the truth you’ve hidden all these centuries, Sileas’s voice said behind his eyes. Tell them what you meant to do after the final hunt. How your scheming forever damned the Mag Raith.

His sire’s mate had been so evil she’d tried to murder an infant, so Broden felt no particular obligation to do as her memory urged. His long life with his four brothers had also taught him that time could also bring some peace to the darkest heart. He’d ever tried in his own fashion to make amends for what he had inflicted on the Mag Raith.

Perhaps that I should do the same for Mariena. But how may I recompense for the suffering I caused her?

Broden walked to the blaeberry thicket where he’d left two rabbit snares, now entangled with a patch of unfamiliar, clustered white flowers on thick stalks. As he drew his dagger he frowned, for he hadn’t noticed any new shoots when he’d set them. He’d probably been thinking about her, as he had every moment since she’d fallen from the sky.

“Do you decorate all your traps?” a voice he didn’t want to hear asked.

Broden glanced over his shoulder to make sure he hadn’t heard her in his head, and saw Mariena walking along the trail leading back toward Dun Chaill. She looked like a wraith against the dappled greens and browns of the forest, but as she drew nearer she passed through sunbeams that spilled a rosy glow over her pale skin and hair.

The light loved her as much as Broden wished he could.

“You do not have to speak to me, you know,” Mariena assured him as she stopped and braced herself against the striped bark of a silver birch. “But when you look at me in that way, mon ange, it makes me want to take off my dress.”

“Keep on your gown, my lady.”

“I think I will.” She wrinkled her nose as she glanced around them. “I do not want to be naked out here with you.

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