Highlander's Curse by Mayhue Melissa

Author:Mayhue, Melissa [Mayhue, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, General, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9781439190326
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2011-03-29T07:00:00+00:00

Twenty-three

Abby lay in the big bed just as she had so often in her dreams, her body throbbing with disappointment and need, her mind reeling with confusion.

When she’d first awakened, she’d been so sure it was simply the dream. So sure, until Colin’s lovemaking had moved far beyond anything she’d ever experienced in the dream. Only then had she realized it was actually happening.

Even then it had taken all her willpower to call a halt.

None of this made any sense. Simply wishing for something couldn’t make it happen. It wasn’t possible. It wasn’t rational.

And yet. . .

Something had definitely happened. One minute she was in a cave with a homicidal maniac hunting them and the next she was in Colin’s bed, with him making love to her.

“Explain that one if you can, Miss Faeries-Don’t-Exist,” she said aloud, sitting up as she did so.

She couldn’t explain it. The harder she tried to come up with something, the more Casey’s words echoed through her mind.

I’m telling you, it’s that wish we made. I don’t know how, but it has to be.

When she was little, her dad had spoken of magic often, attributing all sorts of things to the mysterious force. Like her ability to find things. But that was just a story meant to soothe a child, wasn’t it? Could any of this be true?

No, no, no. She pressed her knuckles against her eyes, rubbing as if her surroundings might be different when she opened them once again.

Accepting any portion of this bizarre business would mean she’d have to accept the whole of it. And there was no way on earth she was accepting the idea that she was sitting in a lumpy bed in medieval Scotland.

She snorted her disbelief, bolstering her confidence, and pushed herself out of bed, pulling the woolen coverlet along with her and wrapping it around her body.

Besides, given time, surely she could come up with some plausible explanation for how she could pass out in one place and wake up somewhere else.

“That could happen.” She again spoke out loud, comforted by the sound of her own voice reflecting off the stone walls. “Easily.” There had to be all sorts of nonmagic and certainly non-Faerie explanations for such a thing. There’d been an earthquake, she remembered that much. And afterward, Colin must have carried her somewhere, though what had happened to Jonathan Flynn she had no idea at the moment.

That explanation made sense. Sort of.

But wishing something into existence? No. Faerie Magic? No. Time travel?

“Oh, hell no!”

There. She felt better already.

She padded over to the fireplace and turned back to survey the room. First thing she needed to do was get out of here. While this place would certainly pass muster as a first-class reproduction of a medieval bedchamber, outside these four walls she would surely find evidence of where she really was.

Though, if there actually were other people downstairs as Colin had said, she’d really prefer not to be traipsing around in nothing more than a blanket.

A knock on the door caught her off guard.

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