Highlander's Hidden Destiny_A Steamy Scottish Historical Romance Novel by Maddie MacKenna

Author:Maddie MacKenna [MacKenna, Maddie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07XXDRK2K
Publisher: Maddie MacKenna
Published: 2019-09-14T00:00:00+00:00

12

Kirsteen was anxiously drumming her fingers on her thigh, waiting for Blanche and Fred to go to bed. They had all been sitting around a fire one of the other players had made earlier in the evening, and Fred was currently belting out a song often heard in the French public houses they frequented when they were playing for nobility on the continent.

Normally, Kirsteen would have joined in, singing a few verses of the bawdy tune before breaking down into giggles over the silly lyrics. It was one of the more ridiculous songs Fred had in his repertoire, and it never failed to amuse her.

Except tonight. Tonight, Kirsteen was not amused. She was nervous. She had agreed to meet Beathan at the entrance to the forest at midnight, and the small pocket watch Blanche had given her for her eighteenth birthday told her it was nearing that time.

When will they stop singing? she wondered with a mixture of annoyance and worry as she looked at the small crowd of people sitting in a circle in front of her.

Kirsteen had naively assumed that since they had a rather long day of rehearsals ahead for the tragedy they were performing the next day, the troupe would go to bed early. Such was not the case however, as evidenced by the lively look on everyone’s faces. Kirsteen was becoming worried that she wouldn’t be able to sneak away unnoticed to meet Beathan.

Though Blanche knew about her meetings with Beathan in his room and had not commented negatively on them, Kirsteen knew her mother. She would not approve of Kirsteen meeting the man outside the castle. Ever since that attack in the woods, Blanche and Fred had been extra vigilant about her whereabouts. They never let her walk anywhere alone, and she now had a guard, requested by Fred, who walked her to Beathan’s room and back to the camp each night.

It was annoying, to be sure, but Kirsteen consoled herself that at least Beathan was experiencing similar treatment from his own parental figures. The evening before, he had told Kirsteen that he hadn’t been out riding in days.

“Me faither thinks I will catch my death, quite literally, should I leave the castle itself,” he had confided in her. “I keep to his rules because it makes him happy, but I daenae mind tellin’ ye I’m goin’ half mad bein’ kept inside like this. A man needs fresh air now and again, ye ken.”

Kirsteen thought this was perhaps part of the reason why they were meeting in the woods, rather than in his chambers, as they usually did. And while she knew that they were both taking quite a large risk, going into the woods at night, alone and unguarded, she couldn’t help feeling rather excited.

Beathan had promised her that a surprise awaited them, and Kirsteen had spent all day wondering what it might be. Was it a swim in the loch? The water would be close to freezing, to be sure, but Kirsteen imagined that with Beathan’s warm body wrapped around her, she wouldn’t feel the cold at all.

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