Morna's Accomplice by Bethany Claire

Author:Bethany Claire [Claire, Bethany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781947731110
Publisher: Bethany Claire Books

Chapter 21

I didn’t cry long. I couldn’t allow myself to waste time that way when all I wanted to do was use Morna’s hocus pocus to get my son back. I didn’t want to cry at all, but as soon as she lifted the spell, I couldn’t help it; the sudden rush of so many emotions sent me into a sort of mini-hysteria. I gasped and cried and screamed in quick succession.

I allowed myself five minutes of good, uncontrollable panic. Then I stood from the bed, swallowing all of it.

“Ok, I’m ready.”

“Grace. . . ” Eoghanan twisted me so I faced him. “I promise ye that he’s safe.”

“Don’t.” I wrenched from his grasp, knowing that if he tried to comfort me I’d start crying again. He looked as if I’d slapped him. I made haste to apologize, walking toward him and standing up on the tip of my toes, kissing him gently.

It was the only intimate act that had taken place between us since our first kiss. Rather than the raw heat that had flooded my body last time, the brush of his kiss calmed me, comforted me in a way I’d never experienced before. I realized in that instant that it didn’t matter how little I knew about him, how short the time we’d known one another. Whatever this was between us, it was right.

“I’m sorry,” I said, wrapping my arms around him, allowing my head to lean against his chest. “It’s just, I’ll lose it again if we talk about it. I don’t understand any of this and it…it scares me.” I let go and took half a step away from him. “Everything scares me right now. Cooper. Jeffrey. Morna. This…” I touched my chest and then his, and he grasped my hand, holding it in place against him.

“Ach, lass, I have never been so frightened in my life. I know ye canna understand all of this, not yet, but ye will when ye see it. I know ye canna help but worry about Cooper, but Morna wouldna let harm come to him and neither would my family. He and Jeffrey are both safe; I’d stake my life on it.”

I nodded, sniffling as I tried to keep from crying again. “I just need him back.”

“I know. Let’s go to him, aye?”

I wanted to leave immediately, to let Morna spell me and send me hurtling back through time toward my son, but I couldn’t get Eoghanan’s wound off my mind.

“Eoghanan, Morna said that she’d slowly been building your strength to travel back, but that the time between now and your home was too far for you yet. What does that mean? It’s your skin, isn’t it? It’s still not healed well enough.”

“Aye, but I’ll do my best to survive it. The first time Morna sent me back, she sent me to the park where I saw ye and Cooper. When she pulled me back here, my wound split open and bled verra badly.”

“Yeah, I figured it was something like that.

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