Elaine Coffman - [Mackinnons 06] by When Love Comes Along

Author:When Love Comes Along
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Adair Ramsay was a deadly man. He played no games. His home was well guarded. He was a strong, cruel man without decency or compassion, a man who had murdered before. He was not above doing whatever he deemed necessary. He would go to any lengths to remove anyone he considered his foe.

Adair Ramsay knew he had a foe now. His name was Fletcher Ramsay. Adair had already decided what to do. To help carry out his plan, he summoned Annora Fraser.

Later that evening, Annora arrived at Glengarry Castle. Adair was waiting for her in his study.

Upon entering, she paused a few feet from his desk and began pulling the leather gloves from her hands. He knew she was doing her best to look calm and impassive, but he had seen the way her gaze darted around the room, the slight tremor in her hands. She would be easy to manipulate. He knew it as soon as she walked into the room, and he felt a thrill of triumph at seeing her cold shiver of fear. “You’re late,” he said.

“It was unavoidable.” She sounded cool and detached, but she fidgeted anxiously with the gloves in her hands.

“I don’t like tardiness.”

When Annora didn’t say anything, he nodded toward a chair on the other side of the desk. “Sit down.”

“Thank you.” She dropped gracefully into the leather chair.

He noticed the way she sat forward, her small frame looking lost and vulnerable. He liked that. “I suppose you are wondering why I sent for you.”

“I was curious, yes.”

“What did you talk to the Earl of Caithness about?”

“You mean today, at the funeral?”

“Aye,” he said, wondering if there had been other times.

“I ask him what he was doing here in Glengarry.”

“And what did he tell you?”

“That he came for David’s funeral.”

“And you believed him?”

“Should I not?”

Adair was silent, noticing the way her frightened eyes seemed hesitant to look at him.

“If you will remember, Your Grace, I told you the last time I saw you that I had seen him in town, that he said his mother had asked him to come to Glengarry, to call on David.”

She spoke with a forcefulness he knew she did not feel. “Did he tell you why?”

She shook her head. “He just said his mother was fond of him.”

“What do you know about Fletcher Ramsay and his past?”

“Only that his mother was the sister of the late Earl of Caithness and that she was married to an American.”

“Did you know that Fletcher’s father was the Duke of Glengarry before me?”

Annora’s face registered shock. “No…I…that is, I had no idea. If Fletcher’s father was the duke, then how did you—”

“How is not important. Suffice it to say, Fletcher’s family had wrongfully taken the title from my family several generations ago. Only after years of intense searching was I able to find sufficient evidence of the deception. The case went to trial and I was awarded the title. This, of course, happened many years ago—before you married and arrived here. Everyone knows and accepts me as the rightful duke.

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