Highland Abduction by Blair Keith

Author:Blair Keith [Keith, Blair]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aryn House Publishing
Published: 2018-06-16T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Silena wasn't sure why she was doing this. This man was her captor and her abuser. He was a monster, just as the tales said. In fact, he was worse. The tales had not even warned her of men like him. They had warned her of brainless beasts that would smash your skull in and eat your flesh. They had not warned her of smooth, attractive, intelligent men, void of empathy, who would use your body like a personal plaything until you were physically and emotionally shattered.

And yet, she felt grateful towards him. She knew that few prisoners lived this long, much less enjoyed an improvement in their conditions as time passed. The more she allowed him to do to her, the more eagerly she responded, the better he treated her.

At least now, he no longer chained her. He fed her well. She had a bed covered in soft, downy pillows and warm woven blankets. Her room was up in a tower, away from the damp and the cold, with a fireplace in the wall and three windows that looked out over the courtyard, so she could get fresh air and sunlight and enjoy the sights and sounds of everyday life carrying on beneath her.

She was still a prisoner and a victim. She was still being held and used against her will. That had not changed.

She forgave him, though. She forgave him for being a terrible monster, a complete and utter beast. Because as time passed, the kinder she was to him, the kinder and more honest he was with her.

As she learned of his parents' brutal death during a siege, of his sisters, burned alive in a castle tower, and of his cousin, a promising young warlord tortured, sodomized and decapitated, left by the river to be found like a dressed deer, she realized that Laird Eadan had good reason to be angry, bitter, and cruel. He had not been born this way. It was not the Stuart blood that made him so brutal and angry, so cruel and callous.

The man was broken. Deeper than she could have guessed. Of course, he was cold and cruel. That was what the world was like for him. That was how life had been for him, every day of his existence. When someone was pushed and shoved, hurt and cut, shattered inside and out, how could they turn out anything but cruel?

She had seen flickers of the same brokenness, the same brutality in herself and her brother. After losing their parents, returning from battle, or hearing of yet another attack on their lands, they would both become withdrawn and unemotional. Too angry to feel sad, the only thoughts on their minds were revenge.

The difference was Silena and Ronan had one another to turn to. They had someone to remind them that life was worth living, that there was beauty and happiness through the pain. They were not alone, and brother and sister fought to keep each other's spirits up and to avoid turning into monsters.

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