Highlander's Evil Twin by Adamina Young

Author:Adamina Young
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2019-08-13T18:30:00+00:00

She was able to sit up now. Energy had returned to her limbs and the servants had helped her to change out of wet clothes and she was now wrapped in warm robes and tucked up in bed. Her hair, still slightly damp, hung in waves around her shoulders. She looked and felt haunted though. She couldn’t quite remember what had happened. It was just on the peripheral of her memory, something bad, ominous, lurking in the wings of her mind. She sipped hot soup and the warmth flooded through her. She was so, so tired. Exhaustion tugged at her consciousness and every now and then, she could feel herself tuning out and slipping away.

Hiram hovered constantly. She knew inside he was worried and wanted to help her but she couldn’t seem to voice the words or the feelings. So, instead, she focused on the soup followed by a warming drink of milk. As the time passed, she grew too hot, too confined under the blankets and robes. Hiram climbed into bed, having stoked the fire first so that it cast a rosy glow around their quarters. Her strength returning, she slipped from the bed and took her warm robe off. She gestured him to let her be. She felt too warm now and took her thin gown off too, standing naked in front of him, no longer embarrassed. As she turned to face him, he gasped and scrambled out of bed, turning her, seeing for the first time the angry bruises. She looked down, slightly bewildered by the look on his face and then, in that second, seeing the bruises, it all fell into place. Connor’s attempt to touch her, to rape her...she had almost become another of his victims. Heather shivered uncontrollably, her teeth chattering as those terrible moments came back to haunt her. She remembered it all. It was the pregnancy that had saved her.

“He stopped because I told him about the baby,” she recalled.

“Connor did this?” Hiram felt anger surge within him. Hot angry tears filled his eyes and he could barely see, for the emotion was choking him. “He knows?”

“Yes.”

She shivered and he pulled her to him.

“It was the only way he would leave me alone. But, oh Hiram, the look on his face, the anger, the revulsion…he pushed me. He really pushed me hard, like I was dirty, like he hated me. I fell at the top of the moat and rolled down.”

“He was there when you fell?” Hiram sucked in his breath. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing. He didn’t want to hear her words and yet, he had to.

“Yes, I shrieked and as I fell back, I saw him looking at me like I was nothing.”

“He left you to die! He knows that moat still gets flooded. If I had gotten to you a few minutes later than I did, the water would have been over your head.” Hiram shook his head in disbelief. “He left you on purpose.” Rage bubbled up within him and Hiram clenched his fists.

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