Keeping Kate by Sarah Gabriel

Author:Sarah Gabriel
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Highland
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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tanding in the inn yard in the darkness, Alec swore under his breath. Without a horse, he had little chance of catching a Highland girl running over terrain that was no doubt familiar to her. Even with a horse, he would find it slow going in the rugged and rocky hills if Kate had indeed gone that way.

And he did not know which blasted direction she had taken. Swearing again, he turned to glance from one direction to another as the cool night wind ruffled his hair and lifted his jacket. He saw no one out in the moors and hills beyond the road anywhere he looked. She was gone—but where?

The little wildcat had bespelled him in his sleep after all. but he was determined to catch her and determined

that he would not be fooled again. The fever pitch of passion and release while she lay in his arms had been astonishing in its intimate power, but apparently that had not changed her mind about acquiescing to her custodial officer's wishes.

Damnation. He spun on his heel and walked toward the stables to rouse the sleeping groom, offering him three times the usual fee if a horse could be saddled quickly. Within minutes, Alec was mounted on a good bay mare. Turning her head, he cantered out of the stable yard.

Pausing in the middle of the cobbled road, he listened to the wind, to the burble of water, to the sound of night birds. Scanning the hills in the darkness, he did not know which way to go. He closed his eyes and imagined her walking the hills. She was a wild and fey creature who would not keep to the road. She was a Highland girl from a staunch Jacobite clan though he did not yet know which one.

Ah, he thought. She would go west—even northwest, toward the true Highlands. It was a guess, but likely the best one.

He turned the horse and headed away from the road. In the matter of Katie Hell, his heart seemed to know readily what his head could not always sort out.

Before long, a pale and silvery dawn lifted over the shoulders of the hills, and Alec saw the landscape around him more clearly: turf and rock, water racing through burns, and the vast bulk of the mountains in the distance. He had not ridden very far, perhaps a few

miles over the moorland, before he saw her climbing the shoulder of a hill.

In the dawnlight, he saw the bright blur of golden hair and the bell shape of her red skirt. Blasting out a sigh, he cantered the horse toward her.

Soon he halted at the foot of the hill and tied the reins to a tree, then ran up the slope with long-legged, sure steps.

Ahead of him, she walked steadily, perhaps tiring on the incline. Riding had conserved his energy, and being a Fraser of the Great Glen, he had spent much of his youth in the Highlands and knew how to pace himself on a hill, just as she did.

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