Forbidden Highlander by Donna Fletcher

Author:Donna Fletcher
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Highland
Published: 2012-09-17T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

“Ten and nine years ago I fell in love for the second time in my life,” Kirk said. “Some men would think her plain,” — Kirk smiled— “but to me she was beautiful and she had the most generous heart. Unfortunately for us both, she was already wed. However that didn’t stop us from loving each other. Until one day she told me that she feared that her husband had grown suspicious and she feared not only for her own life but mine as well. I would have battled the devil myself to make her mine, but she felt compelled to honor her marriage agreement. And so I reluctantly let her go.”

Dawn felt a catch to her heart. She was familiar with the pain he suffered, for she could never truly be with Cree, never be his wife. At least, though, she could stay with him. She did not know if she could bear the pain of being separated from him forever. Just the thought sent a sense of loss so strong through her that she shuddered.

“I found out months later that she had given birth to a daughter and I wondered if the child was mine. When I learned that the lass could speak and had her father’s blue eyes I knew the child was not mine.” Kirk choked back tears that pooled in his dark eyes.

Torr spoke while his father composed himself. “I was ten at the time and oblivious to my father’s suffering, though my sister Teressa who was barely six seemed to understand that something was wrong.”

“She tried to ease my sorrow,” Kirk said. “She was such a loving child. I didn’t know true pain until I lost my Teressa. She died two years ago from a sudden illness. There is nothing as painful as being helpless in saving your child.” This time Kirk couldn’t prevent his tears from falling.

“Not long ago,” Torr said, “an old friend of my father’s, who we hadn’t seen in years, passed through our land and stopped to visit. He had known my sister and was heartbroken to hear she had died. He then told us of a young woman who he had seen that had suffered the same affliction as Teressa. Neither Father nor I thought much of it since there were other people who could not speak, though they could make a minimal of sound. This fellow had insisted that the lass he had seen had been exactly like Teressa.”

“It was when I learned that the lass lived on the Earl of Carrick’s land that I became more curious,” Kirk said. “You see the woman I fell I love with was Ann Gerwan, the Earl of Carrick’s wife.”

Dawn stared at Kirk, her eyes wide.

“I decided it was time to see this lass for myself, so Torr and I journeyed here with the sole purpose of finding you. The snowstorm was a God-sent landing us right where we needed to be. You look much like my daughter Teressa, but then my wife and Ann had similar features.

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