Curse Breaker_A Scottish Highlander Time Travel Romance by Heather Walker

Author:Heather Walker [Walker, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Christie kissed Alexis on the pebble beach overlooking Loch Linnhe. Just beyond the misty mountains, the Isle of Mull lay across the sound. “Come with me, lass. Dinnae take me heart away of me again.”

“I have to go to the Faery,” she told him. “I have to tell them what I know, even if there’s nothing I can do about it yet.”

“What will ye tell them?” he asked. “They cannae help ye.”

“James asked me to do some research on it and report back, and I said I would. I owe him that much at least. I’ll tell him these incursions are part of the curse. I’ll ask him about the village. He might know something about it.”

He lowered his eyes to the ground. “So it’s James, is it? I might have kenned.”

“What about James?” She gasped out loud. “You don’t think… Christie, no!”

“I saw ye with him,” he replied. “I saw the way he looked at ye. He put his arms around ye and kissed ye.”

“He kissed me on the forehead,” she reminded him. “He’s the Faery King, and it’s his mission in life to bring lost Faery home and take care of them. That’s all he ever wanted from me.”

“Ye wanted something from him, though,” he countered. “Is that it?”

She lowered her eyes. “It was in the beginning. When he first found me, I thought that’s what he wanted. I was disappointed, so yeah, I guess you’re right about that.”

“I thought so.”

She caught his two hands. “It wasn’t like that, and it hasn’t been like that since. I was disappointed when I realized he didn’t feel the same way about me, but that was a long time ago. A lot has happened between then and now. I’m not going back for that.”

“Are ye sure?” he asked. “Are ye sure that’s no’ the real reason ye refuse to come with me when all the evidence points to ye and me sticking together?”

She took a deep breath. “Look. I’m really grateful for everything you’ve done for me.”

“But what?” he asked.

“But I don’t really see it the way you do. I don’t really see that we share the same heart. I mean, look at you. You’re alive and well. You wouldn’t be standing here right now if you didn’t have a heart.”

“I do have a heart. It’s right here.” He laid his hand on her chest.

Alexis shook her head. “We’ve been over this before.”

“Aye. We have, and I willnae give in on me position. Ye need to be out there.”

He gazed across the water at the distant island. It called him home. Why didn’t she feel it? Maybe she didn’t feel it. Maybe she was right, and she didn’t belong with him at all. In that case, he better take his leave of her now and be done with it.

When he looked into her eyes, though, her spirit told him a different story. In the three days it took them to travel down to this coastline and find his boat, he only became more convinced he was right.

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