Highland Brawn by Keira Montclair

Author:Keira Montclair [Montclair, Keira]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Highland
Published: 2019-07-08T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Connor had thought all would be well. Guy and Dee were both dead. Many of the guards were dead, others had run off, and Sela had wisely begun to push the lasses over the side of the ship. They landed safely in water that wasn’t over their heads—or at least they did until the boat was nearly empty. The remaining girls were jumping into deep water. Sela would have to jump into deep water. He swam out, Gavin and Gregor joining him to assist the lasses who were being dragged down by their heavy skirts.

Then Sela yelled something that nearly stopped his heart.

She couldn’t swim.

Hellfire, how could anyone not learn to swim?

“Kick your feet when you land,” he yelled, swimming as hard as he could for her.

Gavin had also heard her declaration so he headed to the same area.

Sela and the lass whose hand she held went under together, and they were under for so long that Connor felt sure he would vomit.

“Gavin, where are they? Look for air bubbles. Do you see anything?”

He ducked underwater to see what he could find, but all the lasses had stirred up the bottom enough to keep him from seeing. He came up just in time to see Sela’s head come above water, her one hand reaching for him.

He grabbed her, pulling her close, just as she pulled on her other hand. Her companion sputtered above water. Gavin grabbed the lass, who latched on to him eagerly, almost taking him underwater, but Connor yelled, “Stay calm or we’ll go back under.”

Only then did he let himself focus on the lass in his arms. It felt impossibly right to hold her. “You’re hale, love?”

She nodded, choking up a bit of water.

“Why did you stay on the boat so long? Have you a death wish?”

Sela shook her head, tears flooding her cheeks. “I couldn’t leave any of them with Hord. And the other men ignored us. They were just there to work the oars.”

“Don’t look back,” Connor said, “He’s still on board, staring over, but something tells me he won’t be back for a while.”

They’d finally reached a spot in the water where he could touch the bottom and stand up. As soon as she could, she threw her arms around him and said, “Connor Grant, take me far, far away from here.”

He stopped briefly to confer with his cousins. Maggie and Will had three men tied up. They planned to bring them back to her sire and his father for questioning.

“Sela, what know you of the other boats and shipments?” Maggie asked.

She said, “There are about twenty lasses being held in the manor home at the end of the main street in the village. If you don’t know it, I can take you there. The other shipment will be arriving at the same home in two hours.”

Will said, “I know exactly where she’s talking about. We’ll go there, free the lasses they have, and await the third shipment. Anything else you can tell us?”

She shook her head, but then she thought for a moment.

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