Highlander’s Buried Identity by Shona Thompson

Author:Shona Thompson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-03-11T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

T he moment Finlay set foot in the castle, he knew that his plan was already in ruins. Laird Craig was there, his red hair cut short and thinning on the top, a pair of light brown eyes crinkling with mirth as he talked to Laird Duncan animatedly. Sine was there too, though she did not seem to share her father’s glee that Laird Craig was there. Finlay could see that she had her arms wrapped around her, gaze fixed on their new guest, but her body turning away from him, as though she didn’t welcome his presence, nor his touch.

The three of them were surrounded by a horde of people, a group of Duncan and Craig clansmen. Finlay could also see Rory and Laird Craig’s own right-hand man, Padraig, huddled together in the corner, no doubt discussing the two clans’ business.

It was a sight that made Finlay sick to his stomach, but he didn’t want to attract any attention. He stuck to the shadows, hiding behind one of the pillars in the hall as he watched the Duncans and Craigs together.

Despite his best efforts to hide though, he seemed to have attracted Padraig’s gaze. Finlay didn’t fail to notice the look that the man was giving him, eyes wide with curiosity—and perhaps a little bit of fear.

Finlay told himself that it was impossible for Padraig to recognise him, especially after all these years and especially while he was in the shadows, hiding from eyes like his. He had gone ten-and-four years without anyone finding out his deepest secret, and he wasn’t going to allow Padraig to ruin the life he had built in Brims Ness.

Sine hadn’t missed the look that Padraig had given Finlay either. Her gaze always seemed to find Finlay when he entered the room where she was, like two magnets attracting each other. As she was trying to avoid being bored to death by Laird Seoras Craig, she was looking around the room, gauging his men.

Padraig seemed to her like a decent man, though not as smart as Rory. Sine was thinking that he had kind eyes when she saw him turn his gaze to Finlay, who was in his favourite hiding spot in the hall, and the kindness turned into something that she could not recognise. Part of her thought that it was recognition, though she didn’t know how Padraig could have ever met Finlay before.

“Would the lady indulge me in a walk of the grounds?” Seoras’ voice pulled Sine out of her thoughts, and she glared at him before she remembered her manners. She would certainly have to deal with her father’s disapproval later, though perhaps indulging the laird would placate her father a little.

Besides, it wasn’t as if she had a choice.

“I’d be happy to,” she said as she stood up, Seoras following suit. He offered her his arm, and Sine took it, though reluctantly, before she began to guide him out of the hall and around the castle.

There was something curious about Seoras, though at first Sine couldn’t tell what it was.

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