Highlander's Hellion Bride: A Scottish Medieval Historical Romance by Adamina Young

Author:Adamina Young [Young, Adamina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-22T18:30:00+00:00

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The sun was still setting as Grace, Lorna, and Edina walked at a brisk pace to the tavern. Sandwiched between them, she didn’t garner much attention from the clan members as they passed, most of them mumbling a “Hello Edina,” and averting their eyes with Lorna. Grace was starting to get the feeling that Lorna was not well-loved in the clan, but she was too swept away by Edina’s story to ask Lorna why people were refusing to make eye contact with her.

“And the laird just let ye own a tavern?” Grace asked in amazement. If she had asked her father or brothers to run a tavern, they would have locked her in the room for a month just to ensure that she didn’t try to do it anyway.

“Aye,” Edina chuckled at the memory. “At the time, I was young and reckless. A few years younger than ye are right now, Grace, and I was pushing the boundaries of my freedom, but I also wanted some independence. It never occurred to me that he would say yes, but it was the best decision that I ever made. Oh, the times I had in that place.”

“And Grandfather?” Lorna asked with some trepidation.

“Yer grandfather was a wonderful man. He claimed he fell in love with me the first time he laid eyes on me, but I was too stubborn to give in at first. As much as the laird doted on me, if I married, I would have lost my freedom with the tavern, and I needed to know without a shadow of a doubt that he loved me for me and not because of my success. When I could deny my heart no longer, we married and had many wonderful years together. He let me run the tavern as I saw fit, and he tended to the plot of land his family had worked for generations.”

“Why did ye sell?” Grace asked. They were nearing the tavern now, and she simply couldn’t understand why Edina would give her own business up. It was unheard of for a woman to have something so precious, and Edina was clearly in good health and could have kept going.

“I felt lost when my husband died,” Edina admitted. “I needed something new. I kept on for nearly two years after his passing, but I had lost my love for it, so I sold it. I’ve dabbled in a number of things since then, and now I have ye. It sounds like ye might be just what I need.”

Lorna reached out and squeezed her grandmother’s hand. “I thought ye might like an adventure,” she chuckled.

“Indeed, I do. Some of the girls who work here are from families who used to work for me. Mothers who served and fathers who tended bar. They ran around as kids in my tavern, so they should open up to me.”

“But we need to keep it casual,” Grace warned. “As much as I would like to charge in and demand answers, Hamish wields a great deal of power over me.

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