Managed By The Highlander: A Scottish Time Travel Romance-Highlander Forever Book 10 by Preston Rebecca

Author:Preston, Rebecca
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

The sky lightened as they rode along the lake's shore, allowing her a clearer and clearer picture of the scenery around them as the night slowly gave way to morning. Dawn was still some time away, she could tell, but the forest to their right was beginning to wake up, as she heard distant bursts of birdsong echoing through the quiet trees. And she was finally getting a proper look at the Loch she'd emerged from. It was enormous, she realized with some shock as she looked out over the water to their left. She couldn't see the other side of it from here — the shore continued around the vast body of water then disappeared somewhere in the distance. The water was black and looked absolutely icy in the pre-dawn light, and she shivered a little at the memory of swimming frantically ashore with Moongazer that strange night they'd both arrived. She pulled her cloak tighter around her shoulders, thinking of the way William had wrapped them both up and gotten them in front of a fire to warm them up. It was likely, she realized with an odd little shiver, that he'd saved both of their lives with that quick thinking. Living in California, she so often forgot how fatal the cold could be.

Moongazer was unusually quiet, she realized as they rode, taking in the scenery. But his eyes weren't on the road, or even the forest beside them — on the contrary, he was gazing out intently at the water, as though he was searching for something. The Burgh they'd come through, perhaps? Could his keen silver eyes see below the surface somehow? At this point, she wouldn't put that kind of magic past him.

"What are you looking for, Moon?" she asked.

He glanced back at her, raising one long finger to his lips to hush her… but his eyes were shining with glee as he pointed out, over the dark waters. She followed the gesture, intrigued… and felt a shock ring through her as she saw what he was pointing at. A shape cut out against the waves, ever so slightly darker than the water, just visible in the gloom… a long, slender cylinder rising straight up, with a round, oval-shaped head perched atop it. And as she looked, a couple of glints of light made her gasp in shock. Two eyes, set in that head.

"No way," she breathed, her heart pounding in her chest. She had to be imagining this… but as though hearing that thought, the creature moved, its eyes glinting again as it turned its head to watch the travelers on the shore. It was unmistakable. She'd seen the photos, heard the stories, even thought briefly of the creature when she'd been told exactly which famous Loch it was she'd turned up in… but she'd never in a million years thought she'd see the Loch Ness Monster in the flesh.

And as quickly as it had come, the monster was gone — she saw

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