Highlander’s Unchained Heart : A Steamy Scottish Medieval Historical Romance by Ann Marie Scott

Author:Ann Marie Scott [Scott, Ann Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

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“I knew ye weren’t dead. I could feel it in mah bones.”

Ainslee swallowed as she stared at her brother, wishing she had a knife to protect herself with. He seemed taller than she remembered and bigger, too. His hands were large, and Ainslee knew that the moment he wrapped them around her neck, it would be broken, and she would cease to exist.

That was her fate. “Let me go.”

Her brother chuckled, cocking his head to the side. “Let ye go? But dear sister, we are just getting started! Don’t ye want tae see the prize I have for ye?”

“What are ye talking aboot?” Ainslee asked in a quiet voice, the hair on the back of her neck standing at the lethal edge of his voice.

Liam motioned to the guard that was waiting nearby and he stalked off to do the laird’s bidding, making Ainslee even more concerned.

“Ye know I did mourn yer death, but I dinnae think ye would mourn mine.”

“Ye tried tae kill me!” Ainslee shouted, clenching her fists at her sides. “Ye deserve tae die!” He had nearly ended her life and that of their clan. Though he was her brother, she would rather not be part of his life or even acknowledge the fact that he was her kin.

Their da would be so disappointed in the way Liam had been leading their clan.

“Well, ye will have tae pick this time, dear sister,” Liam continued as a familiar figure came into view. It was Arran, a rag stuffed into his mouth and his face bloodied. His arms were wrenched behind his back, and Ainslee cried out.

Not again! “What have ye done?”

Liam strode over to where his enemy was being forced to his knees. “What was needed to be done,” he leered as he pulled his dagger. “This is our enemy, Sister, nothing more.” He then held the dagger to Arran’s throat. “I am feeling somewhat generous this time. Ye have a choice. Yer life for his. What shall it be?”

Ainslee started to shake, tears streaming from her eyes. A life for a life. She could not let Arran die, not because of her.

Arran shook his head, his eyes wide, and attempted to speak behind the rag, but Ainslee tore her gaze from his. He would not suffer any longer. He had suffered far too much at the hands of her brother and it was time for the suffering to stop. She stepped forward.

“Mine. Ye can have mine as long as ye let him go.”

“As ye wish, Sister,” Liam said as he approached her, the dagger gleaming. Ainslee opened her mouth to scream as the dagger was plunged toward her chest, anticipating the pain of the sharp blade once more.

“Ainslee! Wake up!”

Ainslee blinked rapidly, Arran’s concerned face the first thing she saw.

“Ye’re alive,” she breathed, her throat aching. “Ye’re not captured.”

“Nay,” he said slowly, sitting back on his haunches. “Should I be?”

Ainslee pushed herself to a sitting position, shoving the hair out of her face. “It was just a dream.

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