Highland Guardian

Author:Mayhue, Melissa [Mayhue, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781416532873
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2007-10-30T07:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Sixteen

"There's something very bad here."

The child's whispered warning had caught Sarah off guard as she'd hugged Will good night. The whole day had been so uneventful, it was as if last night had never happened. As if she'd not seen that man standing at the door, watching. But Will's words brought it all back.

"What do you mean? What is it?"

"I don't know. I only know something very, very bad is close to us. Can't you feel it? Something bad is going to happen." Big blue eyes had regarded her seriously. "You should stay close to Uncle Ian. He's strong like my daddy, you know? He'll protect you."

Even here, standing at the edge of the ballroom, watching the people gathered for this evening's party, Sarah couldn't get the words out of her mind. Obviously Will had more than his share of imagination, but the little boy had seemed genuinely frightened when he spoke to her.

Though she felt embarrassed now, sitting at Will's bedside she'd been grateful for the long evening gloves Ian had insisted on buying for her to wear with this dress. The flow of feelings from the child were always so much stronger than those she had ever experienced from any other person. Even through the gloves she had felt tendrils of Will's discomfort. She couldn't imagine how strong it might have been had he touched her bare skin.

She nervously scanned the crowd, searching for Ian, feeling silly at the relief flooding through her when at last she spotted him at the bar waiting for their drinks. He was deep in conversation with Daniel and completely oblivious to the speculative looks and outright stares of the women standing in line around him.

Not that she could blame them. Dressed in the form-fitting tuxedo he'd pulled from his closet tonight, with the lights of the chandeliers glinting off his dark hair, he looked like her idea of every woman's fantasy. And when those black eyes glanced up and met hers across a crowded room as they did now…

A shiver traveled through her body, leaving chill bumps in its wake. One side of Ian's mouth curved up in a smile before he looked away, as if he knew the effect he had on her.

"And this beautiful lady must be the famous author I've heard about?"

Sarah started at the deep male voice so close behind her. Absorbed as she'd been in observing Ian, she hadn't heard anyone approach. Turning, she found her face only inches from a broad, tuxedo-clad chest. She stepped backward, giving herself some space from this stranger, and looked up into a pair of pale, turquoise green eyes framed by a wealth of shiny black hair falling over the wide shoulders of a very handsome young man.

The image of Dallyn instantly flashed through her mind. How odd the two men could strike her as so similar. Ian's unusual neighbor was blond and light like a sun-drenched day, while this man was dark, like a clouded, moonless night. If anything, this man should make her think of Ian, whose coloring was so similar.

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