Last Wish (Highland Magic Book 4) by Helen Harper

Author:Helen Harper [Harper, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

‘He wasn’t angry?’ Speck asked. ‘When he realised you were alive?’

‘Oh, he was raging,’ I said happily. ‘He got past it though.’

‘He was so furious that he set his own castle on fire,’ Bob added with a knowing waggle of his eyebrows. ‘But that’s confidential. Don’t tell anyone.’

Lexie threw herself at me. ‘I’m so thrilled for you!’ she squealed, wrapping her arms round my chest. ‘He’s been working against his own father all this time! That’s brilliant!’

‘I’m not sure that encouraging patricide is a cause for celebration,’ Brochan said.

I glared at him. ‘Byron’s not going to kill Aifric.’

‘Are you sure?’

‘Of course I am.’ I folded my arms. Then I remembered the coldness in Byron’s expression whenever he mentioned his father and the way he’d said the words ‘collateral damage’. I dropped my arms. ‘I think I am.’

Brochan wasn’t the only one who was concerned. Taylor rubbed his chin and sat down with a heavy sigh. ‘It’s a convoluted plan. A fake wedding?’

‘Yeah.’

‘The best plans are the simplest ones.’

‘Yeah.’

‘This is not a simple plan.’

‘To be fair,’ I argued, ‘we’ve not managed to come up with anything to beat Aifric. At least Byron is trying.’

Brochan’s gills bristled. ‘We’ve been busy.’

I threw up my hands. ‘I know! I wasn’t blaming anyone. If anyone should have been working out some way of dealing with the Steward, it should have been me. All I’m saying is that Byron’s way might work and we should support it.’

‘Might work,’ Speck said. ‘Key word might.’

‘Yeah,’ Taylor drawled in agreement. ‘I’m not sure about those odds.’

Lexie wrinkled her nose. ‘Tegs is right. Byron Moncrieffe has had nothing but this to think about. He’s probably already considered every other avenue. He succeeded in breaking into the Moncrieffe castle, didn’t he?’

‘Lex, it hardly takes a criminal mastermind to sneak into your own damned home.’

She whirled round, squaring up to Speck. ‘Oh yeah? Because last night, I seem to recall that you couldn’t even sneak into your own bedroom after doing some midnight magic gallivanting!’

The rest of us exchanged looks. Perhaps it was time to change the subject. ‘Just because we don’t have a plan yet,’ Taylor said, ‘doesn’t mean that we can’t come up with one. Get Byron down here, Tegs, and we can thrash out some ideas.’

‘I can’t. He has to stay and make sure everything is ready for the wedding. And he’s got his Plan B to sort out.’

‘You don’t even know what Plan B is.’

I sighed and glanced down at my feet. ‘I’m not blind to the fact that it’s not perfect, I’m really not. But he was right when he said that the Sidhe and the Clans aren’t my world. I don’t know them like he does. In the absence of any alternatives, I think we need to go with him.’

Taylor ran a hand through his hair. ‘We have an alternative.’

There was something about the tone of his voice that I didn’t like. ‘What?’

He wouldn’t meet my eyes. ‘We play Aifric at his own game. I’ve

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