Moonlit Seduction by Megan J. Parker & Nathan Squiers

Author:Megan J. Parker & Nathan Squiers [Parker, Megan J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tiger Dynasty Publishing
Published: 2018-01-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Three days.

The cursed storm lasted three days!

Three days trapped inside, staring longingly at the mountain through a window.

Three days trying to think about anything but Broden.

Three days failing to think about anything but Broden.

And with the obsessive thoughts came the rising emptiness and a growing sickness. She could hardly keep her food down and her head wouldn't stop aching. By the third day, Abigail couldn't even muster the energy to pull herself out of bed. Somehow, the only thing that her body seemed willing to respond to—willing to even stand up for—was the promise that she’d allow it to go into the highlands; to go find Broden.

Her Broden.

She didn’t even try to fight those thoughts anymore. They were too frequent, too demanding, and, as long as she was being honest with herself, the only thing short of actually seeing Broden that made the sickness subside. All of which was absurd. Tarah would have said so—probably would have laughed in her face for even thinking it—if Abigail wasn’t working so hard to keep it from everyone else. Her parents were easy enough to elude, but only because she was staying home. Not going out against their wishes and not giving them reason to worry was, as it turned out, a great way to not get their attention. But Tarah had come knocking a few times in the past three days. She’d heard that Abigail hadn’t been at the pub and, being both the friend and caregiver she was, she’d come to check in on her. Abigail had been asleep for her first visit, a fact that one of their servants had been quick to relay and, as the servant later told her, this seemed to please Tarah, who’d said she was long overdue for some rest. The irony in that was almost enough to get Abigail to track her friend down and lay down a world class lecture. Almost. The second and third time Tarah had come knocking—the last two times; once in the beginning and then again at the end of the third day—Abigail had been awake, and on both occasions she’d explained that the weather just had her feeling blue.

This, she figured, wasn’t really a lie. It was about as indirect and falsified as a truth could get without becoming a lie, however. But, in her defense, the weather was what was keeping her from Broden, and being kept from Broden was what was causing all the trouble. That part, though, wasn’t the part that Abigail saw as the potential lie. No. It was the “blue”-part—as though what she was feeling could be boiled down to a simple depression.

And that just wasn’t the case.

She felt like she was dying. She felt like every sickness she’d ever known was upon her at once, and all of it had conspired to become an even greater force against her unless she was with Broden. This was no broken heart or fanciful lovesickness like something from a romantic novel; this was a genuine sickness that, somehow, clung to her obsessive thoughts of the highlander.

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