Ghosts of Culloden Moor 17 - Cade (Diane Darcy) by L.L. Muir

Author:L.L. Muir [Muir, L.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Scottish Romance
Published: 2016-02-18T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

What was wrong with her?

Her emotions were all over the place.

She was happy and in love!

Such feelings were a guarantee that fate would find her and snatch it all away.

And that made her feel scared. And sad. About what might’ve been? About what had happened? Her years of sadness, and his?

When she thought about Culloden Moor, a field thick with the souls of the too-soon dead, it made her heart ache.

She floated, occasionally using her hands to propel herself toward the yacht when she drifted too far. It would be far easier if she could believe this was all a dream. Then she could just imagine away all the hurt, fears, and sadness. With all that gone, she could simply love Cade and enjoy a happily ever after.

If she hadn’t bought that coin, would things have been different? Had she purchased this fate for herself? For Cade? Would she have gone on to live her life, perhaps married and had children? She was sure the report of his death would have eventually spread back to the tavern. Would her heart have broken? It certainly ached at just the thought.

What about Cade? Would he have gone to his Maker, rather than chained to the earth?

Instead, she’d died with him.

She was glad she’d not haunted the tavern all those years, but ached for what he’d suffered. If he realized the coin might be a player in all this, would he hate her?

Regardless of all her thoughts and feelings, one thing she knew to be true. She was going to seize this chance with both hands and love Cade with all her heart. She didn’t even like being away from him for the time it took for him to fetch drinks. If she joined him, they could sit at the front of the yacht, within each other’s arms. The thought of if made her heart ache.

With both hands, she scooped water and splashed her way to the back of the boat. She slid off her tube into the cold ocean water. Just as she was about to fling the tube up as she’d seen Cade do, something caught her from underneath and jerked.

Horror stole her breath.

Claws, tight about her ankles, yanked her into the depths and water covered her face and she couldn’t breathe.

’Twas a sea monster!

She never should have listened to William!

She struggled, her legs caught by her skirt as she twisted, kicked out, desperate as she was pulled into the murk, no doubt to join the dead bodies of the others. She caught glimpses of something big, with scraggly hair, and screamed, using up precious air.

She used her arms to try to propel herself upward. She kicked helplessly as the thing dragged her down, as the light from above grew dimmer.

She gasped and water flooded her mouth, burned painfully into her lungs.

The thrashing and kicking became less and less until her energy was gone and she finally stopped. She sucked in more water and it was less painful the second time.

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