Highland Tryst by Eliza Knight

Author:Eliza Knight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eliza Knight

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“How can I help you, miss?”

“I am doing a project on the Scottish MacClintock Clan—they were wiped out around the year 1243. I couldn’t seem to find anything in the stacks.”

The short, rumpled student librarian shoved her glasses back to the bridge of her nose and nodded. “Let’s check the library records online. Might be able to find something for you on microfiche.” She clicked away on the computer for a minute and frowned. “Hmm…”

“What?”

“I do not see anything…Let me look in the deep archives. Sometimes information that isn’t readily important, or rarely used, makes it into deep archives and never resurfaces—that is, until someone like you comes around.”

The librarian clicked some more, and with each passing moment, Kari grew more and more nervous. Had Fin made up the entire story?

“Got it!”

The librarian’s shout startled Kari, causing her to bump her knee into the information desk. She winced and bent to rub the sore spot.

“Wow. How did you even find out about the MacClintocks? Looks like no one has even accessed this information since…well, since ever.”

“Someone in my family mentioned them,” Kari mumbled.

“I’m printing it out. It’s a small account of the clan, not much, but hopefully, it will help. So tragic.”

Feeling a little stunned, Kari thanked the librarian and walked to the printer.

With shaky hands, she lifted the paper and scanned through the contents. Everything Fin had told her was there on paper—even that the Douglas and his men had annihilated the entire MacClintock clan. And most notably that the body of Laird Finley MacClintock was never found.

She swallowed hard, gulping for air. Time travel…the words made her stomach twist into knots. He hadn’t lied. He’d told the truth. He was from another time. There was no way that Fin could have made up what happened to him—the information wasn’t readily available for him to have discovered and run with it.

She sighed deeply, her heart going out to him. How awful to be transported to a time you know nothing about while the people you love were being massacred. The deep ache he must be feeling tore at Kari’s heart. The fact that he was even standing was a testament to his strength, because she would have been curled into a ball, sobbing uncontrollably.

“Tragic, yes,” Kari said. “Thank you.”

“Glad to help.”

Kari glanced toward Fin. Now they just had to figure out what they were going to do.

She made her way toward the soda machines where Fin leaned against a wall, glaring at her, his eyes red and watery as if he’d been coughing.

“Are you all right?”

“Once the poison has left my system, I will be.” He pushed off the wall stalking toward her. “Why did you do this? Who put you up to it? The Douglas?”

Kari’s hand came to her throat, and her stomach flipped with panic. “Poison? What are you talking about?” She shook her head emphatically.

His arm fanned out in irritation. “Ye tried to kill me with this…this soda machine.”

A crooked smile turned her lips, and she tried not to laugh.

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