Highlander's Castle by Joanne Wadsworth

Author:Joanne Wadsworth
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Historical Romance, Highlands, Scottish Highland, Warrior, Warriors, Highlanders, Scotland, Love Story, Higlander, Romance, Scots, Medieval Romance, Scottish, Time Travel Romance, Highland Warriors
Publisher: Joanne Wadsworth
Published: 2014-02-15T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

This couldn’t be happening. Alex had just arrived and she hadn’t had enough time with him. Thunder boomed and a cold wind whipped her nightrail against her legs. What had she been thinking to make that wish? Yes she wanted her parents alive but—

In the darkness hands grabbed her. “Anne, hold still, or you’ll topple us both off this ledge.”

Her feet swayed in midair. “Donald? Where did you come from?”

“I haven’t left. Don’t fight me.” Breath heaving, the tour guide yanked her up from the abyss and onto the thin ledge beside him. “Damn, that was close. Are you hurt? Hell, where are your clothes?”

The wind beat against her. “I—I—”

“Here, take my coat.” He whipped it off and wrapped it around her. “Why’d you try to jump?”

“I didn’t. James pulled me through.”

“Who?”

“The man who ran out of the castle.” She clutched his shirtfront. “Alex rode in on his horse and the men spoke as if from centuries in the past.”

“Yes, but they disappeared as you jumped.” He flattened his hand against her forehead. “You feel all right. Are you certain James pulled you through? To where?”

“To the past, to the year fifteen-ninety. I’ve been there over a week, with both your ancestors and mine.”

“Unbelievable. I made a grab for you as you jumped, and I thought I’d missed then suddenly you were there again.”

“Please, believe me, Donald. I’ve had enough of everyone thinking me delusional.” She flung open the coat he’d given her and exposed her nightrail again. “See. I’ve been back through time. What else could explain this?”

Swirling, eerie fog enclosed them completely. “I told you strange things have happened at these ruins, events that can’t be explained. We shouldn’t have crossed here. This is my fault.”

“You believe me?”

“Yes, look at what you’re wearing.”

“Someone who finally believes me. Thank you.” She grasped his hands. “Although my traveling back through time would have happened no matter where I crossed. There was another Anne, one from fifteen-ninety who made a wish upon the Fairy Flag at Dunvegan. Her family call her Annie, and she traveled to the future, while I traveled to the past. I don’t know where she is, but I met her there before she disappeared again. I was supposed to travel.”

“I’ve heard old folk stories, ones told of unexplained disturbances near the ancient stones. These ruins too.”

The ruins. Alex was gone and now she balanced on the edge of the stone drawbridge at the time right after she’d met him. The sea roared and the surf washed in against the rock’s sheer surface below.

Water splashed her nose then her cheek. The heavens opened and rain hit in a torrent, wiping away the fog in one hard blow. On the rock, Dunscaith emerged from the dark, the castle no more. Rubble was all that remained.

She was back in the future.

“Alex.” She grasped her head as it spun.

* * * *

After stealing back downstairs, Alex eased onto his pallet. Leaving Anne had his gut rolling with turmoil. He wanted to return and hold her through the night.

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