Highlander Undone by Eliza Knight

Author:Eliza Knight
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Highland
Published: 2016-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“Can we not do anything for her?” Shona asked, imploring Ewan. “At least let me give her a tincture that will ensure—”

“The bastard did not have time to finish,” her husband said, understanding her meaning that she’d not want Hildie to suffer from having the MacDonald’s child. “Besides, love, she most likely has a tincture of her own against such things.”

Of course Shona’s mind then went to disease, but how could she help Hildie against that now? In her profession, she was bound to come across any number of compromised men. And that got Shona’s gears going. Once they were safe, and they understand the reason why they’d all been brought together, then she would come back here with an immunity tea for all the women, to help boost their immune systems and even perhaps, she could figure out a way to make pseudo-penicillin. If the Scottish scientist who’d discovered it had found it by using a certain type of mold—molds in England where he’d worked were probably the same right?—certainly Shona could, too.

“We’re not safe here.” Moira was the one who spoke now, her face as pale as a wind-whipped linen sheet. She kept peering back toward the tavern, jumping at the slightest change in the wind.

Rory took her hand, and Shona observed the way her sister’s knuckles turned white from gripping onto him so tightly. She was glad they’d found each other again. Shona had never seen her sister so happy as when she was with Rory.

“I’ll go with Ewan to get the horses,” he whispered to Moira. “Then we can leave.”

She nodded, though she didn’t let go.

The men picked up the satchels and, keeping their senses alert, led Shona and Moira back to the woods. Ewan had always been overprotective of her, even when she’d showed her skill time and again. She thought it was adorable.

“Stay hidden,” Ewan said, pulling her into his embrace so she could breathe in the scent of his skin.

“I will.”

“Your sister needs ye, lass. She’s still in shock, I think.”

Shona agreed. “It will take some time.”

“Almost be better if she arrived the way ye and I did.”

“In some ways, maybe. But perhaps this is a clue we were meant to return here. Or do ye think it means we’re all meant to get back to modern day?”

“All of us?”

Shona shrugged. “Would ye want to?”

Ewan’s jaw muscle flexed. “I dinna know.” He kissed her quickly on the mouth and thrust the dagger from the outlaws into her hands. “Kill anyone who approaches ye.”

Shona nodded, avoiding looking at Moira and Rory’s exchange. The men hurried off, leaving the two of them alone in the silence of the woods, a view of the tavern through the branches.

“Are ye all right?” she asked her sister.

Moira blew out a breath that could have been a gale wind. “Getting there.”

“I know this is sudden and it doesn’t make sense, but, look at me.” Moira raised her eyes from where they rested on her clenched fingers. “I’m all right, and ye will be, too.

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