Highland Spy by Elizabeth Rose

Author:Elizabeth Rose
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Highland
Published: 2020-04-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

“L ay down, Faither, and drink this. It’ll make ye feel better.” Bridget put a few drops of the herbal potion in his ale and her father instantly seemed to relax.

“I could go for a nap,” he said with a yawn. He laid back on the bed and started snoring.

Bridget sniffed the potion, corked up the bottle and put it on the table. “That works well,” she said aloud. She was thinking about going back to the great hall to collect the Highland Chronicles when the door to the room burst open and Caleb stormed in.

“What is the meanin’ of this?” he shouted, holding the book up in the air.

“Oh, guid, ye brought the book back. I didna like leavin’ it with the king.” She took it from him and laid it on the table. Caleb put his bag down on the table and Slink slipped out and explored the items scattered about.

“Bridget, how could ye say those things about me?” he asked loudly, seeming very upset about something.

“Shhh, keep yer voice down,” she told him. “My faither just fell asleep.”

“I have never been so embarrassed in all my life.”

“Oh, nay, did the king see the part about yer rock-hard arms? I’m sorry I didna take that page out yet.”

“Nay, he didna see that,” said Caleb through gritted teeth. “But mayhap it would have been better than all those other things ye wrote about me.”

“I dinna understand,” she said, thinking Caleb was acting odd. “We had a deal and I stuck to my end of it. I only wrote guid things in the book about ye, Caleb.”

“That’s the problem.”

“Ye . . . didna like the guid things I said?”

“Nay, I didna.”

Tears started welling up in Bridget’s eyes. “But I did what ye asked.”

“Ye made me sound unreal,” he told her. “How dare ye make me the laughin’stock of the MacKeefe Clan.”

“People laughed?” Her brows dipped. “Why?”

“The only one who laughed was Logan. Everyone else was too angry about it to even smile, except for my parents who were too proud about things I never even did.”

“But . . . but ye did save me from drownin’, Caleb. And I do think ye’re the spirit of the MacKeefe Clan. I meant all those things I said.”

“When have ye ever seen me toss a caber or even shoot a bow and arrow?” he asked, crossing his arms over his chest.

“Well, mayhap I havena, but I have seen yer muscles and I’m sure that ye’d be guid at all those things. I dinna understand why ye are so angry.”

“Bridget, the king thinks I’m some kind of god-like hero now because of what ye wrote.”

“Oh. I’m sorry. But isna it a guid thing that the king admires ye?”

“For things that I’m actually capable of doin’, aye. But now he’s admirin’ me more than our chieftain, and that is never a guid thing, I assure ye. Bridget, I could never be the man ye wrote about, no matter how much ye want me to be.

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