Heart of a Highlander by Maxine Mansfield
Author:Maxine Mansfield [Mansfield, Maxine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2019-10-15T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Twelve
âAila, wake up, lass,â Ian shouted. Panic filled him as he gently shook her shoulder once more.
What the hell was wrong with his wife? The cook hadnât told him anything except that one moment Aila had been fine and the next sheâd been passed out cold on the floor. Heâd carried her to their room, laid her gently upon their furs, and then heâd shut out the gawking keep staff so they wouldnât see how incompetent their laird really was.
In Afghanistan, heâd had medics to handle this kind of stuff. In Ohio, heâd had his mom. But this wasnât Afghanistan, and it sure-as-hell wasnât Ohio.
What options did he have available to him?
What if no matter what he did, she still didnât wake?
Ian shook his head. No, he wouldnât think like that and he wouldnât panic, at least not yet.
In the war, heâd seen many men die right before his eyes from every possible scenario he could think of, such as gunshot wounds, dysentery, mortar attacks, roadside bombs, and simply not paying attention to their surroundings, but they were soldiers, for the most part anyway, and they sure as hell werenât Aila.
She was so pale, so very, very pale, and cooler to the touch than he thought she should be. Had someone poisoned her because sheâd once been a member of the Sutherland clan? After all, did he really know any of these people? Especially the cook, Agnes. Could anyone ever really trust the cook? In every murder mystery heâd ever watched, it had always been the butler or the cook who committed the crime, and at Castle Borve, they didnât have a butler.
He leaned in close and sniffed at Ailaâs shallow breath but couldnât detect anything other than her normal sweet scent.
His heart skipped a beat, and his breath caught in his chest. Sheâd wake. She was his wife and the woman who completely owned his heart. Of course, sheâd wake. She simply had to. If she didnât, he was going to kill himself a cook, even if Agnes had always come across as the sweet, little old lady type.
He shook Aila again, a little harder this time.
But what if she didnât wake?
What would he do?
After all, who else could he even ask for help? She was the healer, the only healer in the whole northern section of this God forsaken, frigging country. She simply had to wake up, and now.
Panic threatened to close off his throat to the point he could barely draw a breath. His forehead broke out into a sheen of sweat that matched his palms. His legs felt weak, and his sweaty hands began to tremble.
Then a miracle happened.
Slowly, her eyelids flickered open and her gaze cleared.
It was on the tip of his tongue to shout his relief for all the world to hear when his wife balled up her cute, tiny, little fist and punched him square in the nose, hard.
âLiar,â she yelled.
Ian jumped back out of her reach.
âYe are a liar, Ian Mackay, and Iâll nae forgive ye for it as long as I live.
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