Grace Unchained (Phoenix Throne Book 5): A Scottish Highlander Time Travel Romance by Heather Walker

Author:Heather Walker [Walker, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-23T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Grace blinked up at the woman coming toward her. The woman didn’t see anyone or anything around her. She stared at nothing, looking out through her dead eyes at something beyond this world.

Grace got to her feet as the woman approached. She peered into those sightless depths. “Ivy?”

“I’m Alexis.”

“Do you know where Ivy is?” Grace asked. “Do you remember how you got here? Did one of you cast a magic spell?”

Alexis stared at a spot somewhere over Grace’s shoulder. “I don’t know where Ivy is.”

Jamie murmured in Grace’s ear. “Ivy must be the one under the ocean.”

“Can you remember how you got here?” Grace asked. “What’s the last thing you remember?”

Alexis shook her head. She glanced down at Christie lying dead at her feet. She laid her hand on his chest. Christie jerked off the ground. He inhaled a deep gasp of air and collapsed back panting on the ground.

Alec cried out in astonishment, but neither of them would move in to help their cousin. Another man rushed forward. He threw himself on his knees at Christie’s head and gathered the young man in his arms.

Grace couldn’t take her eyes off the girl. “How did you do that?”

Alexis didn’t respond. She went back to staring into space.

“It’s like ’Azel,” Jamie murmured. “’Azel can do things like that.”

“This isn’t possible,” Grace replied. “How did she get here?”

“Do ye no see?” he asked. “The giants ha’e been movin’ towards her allus time. Those winged creatures I saw the other night mun’ ha’e come from her. They flew back tae Mull tae attack the McLeans where the other woman is.”

The big man lifted Christie off the ground. He struggled to his feet, still cradling the haggard form like a baby. “We’re goin’ back,” he growled. “I dinnae care what Lachlan says. We’re goin’ back. We’ll fight this war from our own land. We’ll no trek around across Hell and gone tae fight somebody else’s battles fer ’em.”

Jamie nodded. “Take her wi’ ye. Ye’ll need her tae lift the curse. She can use her magic tae stop this.”

“Are you insane?” Grace blurted out. “They can’t just take her. She’s a grown woman. She can make up her own mind where she goes and what she does. You can’t just tell them to take her. What’s going on, Alexis? Tell us how you got here, and we can help you figure this out so you can go home.”

“She cinnae go home,” Jamie returned. “She mun’ stop this thing afore it kills somebody else.”

“She doesn’t have to do anything,” Grace told him. “She’ll be the one to decide what she does and when and how. Besides, you said if she and the other woman go back, the curse will lift. Don’t tell me you want to keep her here against her will.”

“If she kens the stakes, she’ll choose to stay ’ere,” Jamie replied. “She cinnae turn her back on allus people. They would die.”

“That’s exactly what I’m saying,” Grace returned. “You have to explain it to her in a way she’ll understand.

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