Brogan's Promise by Suzan Tisdale

Author:Suzan Tisdale
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Highland
Publisher: 0
Published: 2017-06-26T18:30:00+00:00

After letting the Mactavish men, as well as his own, know how pleased he was with their progress, Brogan returned to Mairghread’s bedchamber. Her color was beginning to improve, but she still looked gaunt and tired.

Gertie and Tilda were with her, sitting near the fire as they worked on some needlework and chatted. Mairghread sat with a blanket across her lap and looked into the fire.

“Good day to ye, ladies,” he said when he came in.

If he didn’t know better, he’d say Mairghread was relieved to see him. Something akin to relief flashed behind her eyes.

“Good day to ye, laird!” Gertie and Tilda said as they jumped to their feet. “We did no’ expect ye back so soon,” Gertie said.

“Nay, ’tis fer certain we did no’,” Tilda added with a shake of her head.

“If ye have more things to attend to, m’laird, we surely do no’ mind sittin’ with our lady,” Gertie said with a most hopeful tone.

Mairghread bore the expression of a woman pleading to be saved from the gallows. Biting his cheek, he said, “That will no’ be necessary. Mayhap on the morrow?”

While the two auld women look positively forlorn, Mairghread looked like he had just saved her from the gallows.

He ushered the women out of the room and took up the seat across from Mairghread.

“I love them, I truly do,” she said.

“But only in small doses?” he asked.

She puffed out her cheeks and let the air out in a rush. “Aye, in small doses.”

He filled her in on the progress Henry was making on the wall. She was glad to hear it. But when he recounted the story of the thousands of murderous horse thieves, she was not as amused as he. “Why would he say such a thing?”

“There are some here who are still quite loyal to Aymer,” he said without thinking.

“And what is wrong with that?” she asked. “He stepped in to lead them when I could no’.”

Unwilling yet, to share his suspicions with her, for he had no sound proof or evidence, he said, “Ye must admit yer uncle has a strange way of doin’ things, aye?”

On that, she could not argue. “Aye, but I do no’ understand why ye worry over their fealty to him.”

Treading the waters very carefully, he said, “Lass, it is important that we build a wall as soon as possible. If the men did no’ have a good, sound reason presented to them, they might still be tryin’ to make up their minds. Their loyalty to ye is me primary concern. I want them to see that ye are quite capable of leadin’ them as their chief.”

Her expression said, ‘no’ this again’.

“Mairghread, ye are the rightful heir,” he told her.

“I ken that,” she replied drolly. “But I am in no condition to be the chief right now.”

Brogan nodded his agreement. “Ye are right. But soon, much sooner than ye realize, ye will be hale and hearty again. I be merely tryin’ to help ye while ye recuperate.”

He could see she was mulling something over in her mind.

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