Love and Mayhem by May McGoldrick

Author:May McGoldrick [McGoldrick, May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Duo Creative

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Almost there, and Marion wished she could grow wings.

At a fork in the road, the horses turned down the lane leading to Fleet Tower. She was again on McCall land. Finally. Her eyes drank it all in.

There was something dreamlike in the landscape as she looked around her. The countryside, the cottages nestled in the glens and on the sides of the hills, the farms—so much of it was almost new to her. It was all here twelve years ago. All just the same. She knew that. But she’d been too young when she left. It had slipped away from her memory like the mist on a morning slope.

Still, there was something familiar in all of it.

There was so much that she wanted to see, yet at the same time she was impatient to get to the Tower. The yearning ache of the years now became almost unbearable. She filled up her lungs with the cool autumn air, trying to recall the smell of the earth and the trees and the fading heather. She didn’t even realize that she’d ridden past the front of the group until Iain suddenly appeared beside her.

“You need to promise to wear this same smile for all our married days.”

“I promise.” She smiled at him, happy that he wasn’t slowing her down, but staying with her. “And thank you for taking me home first.”

“I told you I’ll stay the night with you at Fleet Tower, but I need to send most of the men back to their families.”

“Send all of them away. I doubt my aunts would be ready to take care of so many new arrivals.”

“We’ll see. I might just do that,” he said. “Tomorrow, though, you and I need to ride to Blackthorn Hall to see my mother. You cannot avoid her until the wedding.”

She nodded reluctantly. Marion was not looking forward to meeting with Lady Elizabeth. All of the memories she had of the gentlewoman consisted of her looking down her nose disapprovingly at Marion. Correcting her whenever she was in her company. Lecturing her on how she should behave and what her responsibilities were. Lady Elizabeth treated Marion like a wild child who wasn’t getting any instruction on behavior from her own family.

Well, perhaps she wasn’t, Marion admitted to herself, but that wasn’t any reason to try to make her feel so lacking.

“But I want to come back here to spend the night,” she told Iain.

“Very well.”

“And I want you to let me stop, visit, and get to know this countryside again on our ride over and back.” She made a sweeping gesture that took in everything around them. “I’ve missed all of this so much.”

“We’ll do that, as well.”

Marion looked at her husband and her heart swelled with everything she felt for him. He couldn’t have been kinder to her since their stay at the inn. He could not have been more caring, compassionate, or understanding. Something had changed in him. She could see it in his eyes, in the

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