Isle of the Blessed by Suzan Tisdale

Author:Suzan Tisdale
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Highland
Publisher: 0
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

After a long and much needed bath, Josephine slipped into a simple green dress and sat down to pen a letter to Graeme. For the next two hours, they passed letters back and forth to one another, using Bridgett as their messenger.

Laurin returned later in the afternoon, and while she looked happy, she was not quite as happy as Josephine.

“Pray tell,” Laurin said when she entered the room and Josephine looked up with a bright smile. “What has ye smilin’ so?”

“Oh, Laurin,” Josephine exclaimed happily. “Something quite remarkable has happened.”

Laurin hurried to sit opposite her at the little table. “What? What has happened?”

Josephine handed the stacks of letters to Laurin. “Begin with the one on top,” she said.

Laurin’s brow knitted into a line of confusion as she tried to decipher the handwriting. “Who wrote this?”

Josephine was beaming. “Graeme,” she said as she waited for the realization to settle in. “When I woke, there was a small bundle of letters just inside the door. All from Graeme.”

Laurin was not quite grasping the importance. “And?”

“Don’t you see? He begged my forgiveness last night and when I woke, I found the letters. He had begun to respond to all the letters I wrote him over the years. So far, I have eleven.”

Laurin shot her a look that said she was beginning to question her soundness of mind. “Why do ye no’ just go talk to him? If he be anythin’ like Albert, ye’ll soon find ye can talk to him about anythin’.”

Josephine patted Laurin’s hand. “Albert is a very good man. I am so very happy that you are warming to him.”

Laurin’s face flushed a deep pink. Josephine would not dare ask if they were doing more than just talking.

“He be a verra good man,” Laurin agreed before changing the subject back. “Why do ye no’ just talk to Graeme?”

“Well, we discussed that in our letters. Graeme is much better at writing his feelings than saying them. And in that process, we are learning much about one another.”

Laurin put the letter down and studied Josephine closely for several long moments. “I do no’ think I’ve ever seen ye this happy, Joie. I do no’ understand all this writin’ back and forth, when ye’re only a few steps away from each other. But if it ye brings ye happiness, I’ll say naught more about it.”

Josephine knew that others might not understand the significance of this breakthrough. What mattered was how important Graeme’s letters were to her.

She was about to tell Laurin something else, when someone knocked on the door. Josephine squealed with delight as she shot to her feet. “Another letter!”

Bridgett had barely stepped inside when Josephine grabbed the letter from her hand. “Um…” she asked with a hint of trepidation. “Will this be goin’ on all the night long? I be wearin’ a path out between yer room and his.”

“Oh! Bridgett, I am so sorry!”

“Do no’ fash yerself over it,” Bridgett said. “But would ye mind if I found a younger lad to

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