Falling for the Highlander by Emma Prince

Author:Emma Prince
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Time Travel
Publisher: 0
Published: 2018-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

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Eagan stood on the battlements, squinting into the rapidly falling dusk.

The Laird should have been back to the castle well before now. Bron and the others had ridden through the gates hours ago, reassuring Eagan that the Laird was taking Caroline Sutton to the standing stones and had specifically instructed them to return without him.

But Callum had said they would be back before the evening meal, which had already come and gone. With night drawing closer, Eagan feared something had gone terribly wrong. Mayhap the Laird’s horse had been lamed. Or mayhap a band of audacious MacBeans had strayed well past the border.

Or mayhap that woman had gotten up to something.

Eagan resisted the urge to spit in disgust over the edge of the curtain wall. He was the seneschal to the Lairds of Kinmuir Castle, not some crude farmer or mercenary.

Still, it did not take a seneschal’s sharp attention and knowledge of all that went on in his keep to see what was happening.

Caroline Sutton was casting some sort of spell over all those in the castle—and most especially the Laird.

Whether it was true black magic or merely a fascination with her odd ways and the allure of her feminine wiles, Eagan didn’t care. It wasn’t his place to know the difference—only to protect the castle, his Laird, and his clan.

And the lass was threatening all three.

The Laird was clearly taken with her. Eagan had seen them nigh kissing in the garden a sennight past, and watched from the keep as the Laird had ridden off with the lass in his lap that morn.

If Callum continued to forget his place, his responsibility, the whole clan would suffer. Their alliance with the MacConnells would fall through, and the peace Callum’s father Duncan had fought so tirelessly for would be squandered.

And if the MacBeans were truly bold enough, they would break not only their border, but might even try to claim Kinmuir as well. Though MacMorans had held this castle for several generations, one weak link in the chain could destroy all that. That was the way of things in the Highlands. Any sign of vulnerability, and the wolves descended.

Worry knotting his stomach, Eagan turned to one of the guards on the wall, preparing to give the order to organize a search party for the Laird. But just as he began to speak, Callum’s distinct whistle cut through the gloaming.

A guard farther down the wall sent an answering whistle, and several men began ratcheting up the portcullis. Eagan scanned the twilit moors again, his gaze fastening on a horse trotting toward the castle.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he picked out Callum’s dark form atop the horse, then frowned at the sight of the woman still sitting in the Laird’s lap.

Eagan hurried down from the wall. He’d just reached the yard when the gates swung open and Callum rode in. From the stiff way the Laird dismounted and lifted Caroline down, he hadn’t completely gone daft over her, thank God.

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