Highlander's Sword: Paranormal Bear Shifter Romance (Clan Matheson Book 3) by Joanne Wadsworth

Author:Joanne Wadsworth [Wadsworth, Joanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-01-03T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Annella drifted amid the twinkling stars as the night sky fully enclosed her. She breezed higher toward the place where Father and Ronan’s essence always blazed and gasped as a tiny spark flared. Ronan’s. As she circled him, his star glowed more brightly and she latched ahold and sank into his mind. Connected to him, she infiltrated his dreams, found him searching for her. Within his mind, she sensed his need to warn her of all that had happened and she allowed her full form to emerge and grasped his bearded face in her hands. “I’m right here, Ronan. Wake up.”

“Annella?” Groggily, he lifted his head and opened his eyes, her name no more than a rasp between his dry lips.

“Aye, ’tis me.”

“I’m rarely permitted any sleep.” He glanced over her shoulder and she followed his move. A single candle burned in a holder in the corner, its glow flickering over the metal bars of his cell, a darkened passageway leading away and the overpowering stench of urine and damp earth clogging the air. “The guard never wanders far, always keeps me awake.”

“Let me see if I can free you.” She gripped his wrists clamped and chained to the blackened stone wall behind him and rattled the steel. No good. She’d need a key to unlock the braces. Bruises marred his cheeks and arms, while dark circles lay heavy around his eyes. His tunic was wet with sweat, his pants torn down one leg, and his feet lay bare and bloody. Oh hell. Was that a rat nibbling on one of his toes? She kicked the rodent and it screeched and scuttled into the darkened corner of the cell. Not far enough away for her liking. After it, she went and swiped at it again. It fled through the bars and darted away, thankfully now gone. “I’ll make Duncan MacKenzie pay for taking you. I promise I will.”

“Duncan MacKenzie is with Father. We parted ways in a meadow beside a stream. Something with Duncan isnae quite right. During our trek across MacKenzie land, he kept insisting Father and I needed to embrace our destiny, that even our fae princess would understand our capture was meant to be. ’Tis like he’s the enemy, yet also no’.” He shook his head as if trying to clear it, his gaze roaming her body. “How is it I can see all of you, as if—have you fully evolved?”

“Aye. The moment I connected with you within the dream realm, I allowed my spiritual body to solidify. I can remain right here with you until I force a return.”

“Incredible.” He shook his head. “You were naught but five when Mother left us, barely old enough to remember all she could do, but I was older and always in awe of how she could be there one moment, completely touchable afore she dissolved and disappeared. I hope a mated bond takes between you and another within our clan, that you’ll be tied to this Earth in a way Mother never was with Father.

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