Evander (Immortal Highlander Book 3): A Scottish Time Travel Romance by Hazel Hunter

Author:Hazel Hunter [Hunter, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allure Press
Published: 2017-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

EARLY THE NEXT morning Evander left Rachel sleeping and saddled the roan, riding to the river to plunge into the icy water. Bonding with the streaming, bubbling currents, he rode them to a small loch on the western edge of the highlands. Once he guided his mount onto the shore, he followed it to an impassible cliff, and there tethered the horse to a nearby tree.

The surface of the loch reflected the pale, cloudless sky and framed it with diamonds of silvery sunlight. Evander suspected these warm, gossamer days of the fall would end before the next full moon. Even now his breath whitened the chilly air, and night frosts had stripped all but the evergreens of their leaves. He could almost feel the sun growing more distant, and the creatures of the forests and mountains preparing their winter nests and burrows. So he would also have to do with his heart.

The decision had been easier than he’d imagined.

Last night he had held his lover and watched her sleep, and imagined how the years would pass for them. As a wanted traitor he would always have to remain in hiding. Rachel would not have children with him, but neither would she have family or friends. He would be her world, and perhaps that would be enough for her, but if he were captured and killed, she would have no one.

He wanted to give her more, to give everything, but he had nothing left. She needed the life David had stolen from her. Keeping her with him, Evander knew, was almost as bad.

But he had to be careful not to alarm her. Rachel might not wake before he returned to the cottage, but if she did he would tell her that he had been exercising the roan. After their morning meal he would present her with the saddle he’d made for her, and ride down to the village. On his last trip for supplies he learned there would be a fair today to celebrate the harvest, and he knew she would enjoy that. Their outing would be a happy one, and when they returned to the cottage he would make love to her for the rest of the night.

Their last day together should be joyous.

Feeling unseen, watching eyes, Evander removed his spear and daggers, placing them on the ground in plain view before he approached the brush at the edge of the cliff. If he had still been a clansman he would have strode through the illusion, but he’d lost that privilege when he’d betrayed the McDonnels. He stood beside the nearest stone with his arms slightly out, showing his empty hands.

Nearly an hour passed before a young lass in a short woolen robe emerged from the cliff. Her round face filled with innocent curiosity, but her ancient eyes remained wary. She inspected him openly.

“What do you want, Renegade?”

“I come to parlay for Rachel Ingram, who is druid kind.”

Moving slowly, he took out the snip of hair he had stolen from Rachel while she slept, and placed it on the standing stone before backing away from it.

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