My Lady Highlande by Nancy Lee Badger

My Lady Highlande by Nancy Lee Badger

Author:Nancy Lee Badger [Badger, Nancy Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nancy Lee Badger
Published: 2014-04-01T14:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER 13

Gavin’s fearful gasp drained all the blood in Bull’s body and send it to his toes. Gavin pushed passed him, and knelt. When he stood, the tiny weapon in his palm glittered under the warm sunshine and the warrior’s face paled.

Bull immediately sensed that Gavin knew something, but the Highlander was silent. He hefted the small weapon, and turned it repeatedly. Bull’s gut twisted, and he feared he wasn’t going to like what the knife’s appearance, in an empty meadow, meant.

“What’s wrong?” he asked, “Are those jewels?”

“Aye,” Gavin whispered, glancing toward the meadow, then back toward the glade.

“Do you recognize its origin?”

Gavin nodded, and his breath rattled, as he exhaled. “The last time I saw this, it nestled in a small leather sheath.”

“Where?” Bull was now very sure he didn’t want to know.

“In the bodice of my mother’s gown. She wore it, always.”

“You’re kidding.”

“ ‘Tis no time for tales. The woman is actually my stepmother. My real mother died when she fell from a tower in my father’s castle. He said she killed herself, but I have never believed his words.” Gavin stared at nothing.

Bull popped him on the shoulder. “Snap out of it! Why would her weapon be here?”

“I am not…sure,” Gavin whispered,.

“Could a kidnapper have dropped it?” Bull glanced around, then listened again. If he was back home, honking vehicles, low-flying aircraft, and arguing voices would strain his ears, but here in Scotland, all he heard was silence.

“A what?” Gavin asked.

Bull scratched his head. “You know…an abductor. Has someone seized her, taken her…”

“Look. There be her shoes, and her hair tie! Dear Lord, they took her.” Gavin cried, then rushed back toward camp.

Bull followed at his heels. “Talk to me. Is it a clue to who might have taken Izzy?”

“Aye, but it only points to my father. I must talk to Niall.”

“Could Niall have taken her?”

“Nay, he has been with us, or his men at their camp.”

Bull glared at Gavin’s back, as the warrior ran. Why would he think his father had kidnapped Izzy? Was his father after her property, as well? Wouldn’t that pit the man against his son? Either way, he couldn’t help Izzy until he found out where they’d taken her.

Standing around twiddling his thumbs was not his style. Before he had traveled to ancient Scotland, he had considered himself a man of action. The people around here called him a Highlander, but the only thing he had in common with warriors like Niall Sinclair’s men was a Scottish heritage.

Until now.

Nothing, not even a sword-wielding Highlander, would keep him from finding Izzy.

Bull halted, several yards away from where Gavin was arguing with his brother, and listened. It was prudent to stay inconspicuous, and use his ears and eyes.

Safer too, since each man gripped the hilt of a weapon.

When their voices turned to shouts, he tensed. Would they come to blows? The instant one of the men mentioned Isobel, he blundered into the fight, and pushed the men apart. “Do either of you know where



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