Morag's Tears (Celtic Storm Series Book 5) by Cantrell Ria

Author:Cantrell, Ria [Cantrell, Ria]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen – The Clan MacDougal

Not all clans warred with each other. Aye, t’is true that most clans were in some ways rivals and most clans fell to raidin’. None could deny that and most times it was justified with a counter raid. Rarely, a full blood feud ensued, but sadly sometimes it did come to that.

The MacDougal Clan was not bent on a blood feud. I think if Sinead had not come when she did, Jamie’s life would have cost any hope of peace between the clans. But rather, since he lived, the rivalry grew but the blind hatred, thankfully, did not. Oh, dunna’ get me wrong, they did nay like each other. They surely did nay trust each other, but no rival blood had been spilled to date.

It did escalate, I must admit, shortly after Ruiri took his Binding Vow with Brielle. Not only did the MacDougals steal our sheep, but for some sadistic reason they took to laying some of our prime grazing lands to waste. I swear Jamie wanted vengeance and I canna’ say I really blamed him. T’was nay just Ruiri who wanted vengeance on all of the guilty MacDougals. Of course Jamie and Liam wanted their own piece of justice. Shawn was kept home to await the birth of his second son and Caleb was needed to oversee matters that a laird is needed to administer. Well, that particular raid ended with an actual alliance that still exists today. Ah, how the Fates weave their threads indeed!

Well, then, the MacCollum lads seemed to be followin’ a wild goose chase as night after night, the MacDougals evaded my bonnie MacCollum men. Every time they seemed to close in on the raiding party, they were left without the end of the prize. Instead, more grazing land was razed and a few more ewes were taken in the midst of it all. I have no doubt that Ruiri was not the only one who wanted to spill the blood of those who had lain waste to the precious MacCollum meadows.

It seemed that Ruiri had an uncommon bond with Brielle since he had spoken the Binding and for some unknown reason, he knew he had to return to her. He felt she had encountered some vicious evil and he did nay have to think too deeply to know that very evil would come at none other than the hands of her verra’ own brothers. Ruiri had to get back to MacCollum, leaving his brothers to finish the fight, so he could make certain his beautiful bride was safe and sound where he last left her.

Only, he did nay make it home; nay. On his journey back to MacCollum Keep, he rode right into the arms of the MacDougal himself. Ruiri was nay a man to go down without a fight and so he fought as many of them as he could. I daresay, he even killed a few. Now ye’ may think that would have waged a full on blood feud and by the One God, it nearly did.

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