Heart of the Highland Wolf by Terry Spear

Author:Terry Spear [Spear, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Chapter 14

If Flynn wasn’t already dead, Ian would have strangled him. He didn’t believe Flynn wanted to give the wolf to him, not when Flynn had loved women, even Ian’s betrothed, so much—actually, too much, in that case. If Flynn had wanted to give Julia to Ian, why lock the trapdoor? To keep her from escaping?

No, he wanted some concession, Ian was fairly certain. Forgiveness for his earlier crime, maybe.

“You know him better than any of us, Cearnach. What game is he playing now?” Ian asked, stalking back through the tunnel.

“Going outside again probably would have been quicker,” Duncan mused.

“I had our men secure the trapdoor from the outside in case the intruder tried to slip out that way. Hell, if Flynn locks us down here, I swear I’ll have him exorcised. Do you hear that, Flynn?”

“It’s hard to believe he wants you to have the wolf, but he did lead her to your lady’s chamber and not the study or the great hall. You know how he is. No matter how hard it is to figure him out sometimes, he always has a good reason for doing what he does,” Cearnach said.

Ian gave Cearnach a dark look. “Except when it comes to women. His loyalty is a bit skewed.”

“Aye, but he’s had nearly two hundred years to change his ways, and this past year he has really made a concerted effort to leave the women alone.”

“Only because they don’t like his ghostly appearances and run shrieking from his presence.”

It took them another fifteen minutes to reach the next tunnel, which would exit through the kitchen. Ian yanked at the trapdoor. “Locked.” He growled. “I will kill him. We’ll split up forces. Once one of us gets through, we can help the others.” He banged on the trapdoor a couple of times, partly in frustration and partly in case someone was in the kitchen and could hear them, but it was too early for that.

“Which way are you going?” Cearnach asked as Ian headed back toward the trapdoor where Julia had entered.

Ian grunted.

Duncan cast him an elusive smile. “He’s going to try to sweet-talk the woman into opening up. Maybe Cearnach should try. You will probably scare the wee lass half to death after the way she left here in haste last night.”

His brothers laughed and headed off down the tunnel to try their luck at other trapdoor exits.

As much as Ian hated to admit it, Cearnach probably would have better luck convincing Julia to open up at this point. But Ian was dying to learn what she would say about what she had been up to this time.

Ian hadn’t gone far down the tunnel when he thought he heard the muted sound of pots and pans clanging in the kitchen through the trapdoor. His brothers had already made haste down the tunnel in the opposite direction, but Ian hurried back down the tunnel and then up the stairs to the trapdoor and banged hard.

A woman squeaked.

Hell, probably gave whoever it was a near heart attack.

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