Highlander Found by Rebecca Preston

Author:Rebecca Preston [Preston, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

Audrina woke with a start, sobbing hysterically. It took a moment for her sight to clear of the red blur she was seeing. When she was able to partially see again, she tried to sit up, but sort of rolled off the bed. She crawled to the window and pulled herself up by reaching up to the sill and grasping it. When she was in an upright position, she took great gulps of fresh air, as she tried not to be sick.

She remembered everything. Everything that was done to her, to Maeve. She knew now without a shadow of a doubt that she was the reincarnated Maeve. She felt everything Maeve had felt, and she felt. Every. Atrocious. Thing. Lord Cotswold had done to her. She sobbed anew at the memories. The acts of atrocity that he had committed in his sadistic pleasure hadn’t been defined. It was the pain it had caused that Audrina remembered in vivid detail. Parts of her body throbbed in pain in a way that she was unaware could hurt as such.

What sickened her even more was the fact that, he hadn’t been able to fulfill his “duty” as he proclaimed, unless he had been partaking of his sadistic nature. He was a sexual sadist and he reveled in the pain her caused, he got off on it.

Audrina continued to gasp as she willed her mind to turn to other thoughts. She was certain now of her love for Colin, and she clung to it as if it was the life saver she was so desperately clawing for. She was drowning in a sea of emotions and she needed her rock, her savoir and she knew without a doubt that had always been and always would be Colin.

She remembered the day she walked through the gates she was now staring at. She remembered the standoff with young Colin and at first, she had despised him for not accepting her straight away, but when he fell and cut his chin, all of that had fled from her soul as she realized, he was just like her, struggling to survive in a harsh and cruel world that showed no mercy to the sick and the weak. Maeve had decided right then and there that this boy was hers. God may have taken her family and her sisters from her in the epidemic, but he gave her back someone else, Colin.

Audrina remembered growing up in the keep and the day Colin had given her the tower room to practice her medicine. She had flounced around the room touching everything. He had worked the wood to create the benches and work tables for her and he had collected her stores from her room while she slept and organized them on the shelves. He had done it for her for her eighteenth birthday, a year before they would be parted from one another upon her death.

Audrina remembered why she had men’s clothing in her trunks. Maeve and Colin would

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