Peggy's Love: A Scottish Victorian Romance (The Victorian Highlanders Book 5) by Ellie St. Clair

Author:Ellie St. Clair [St. Clair, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prairie Lily Press
Published: 2020-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“What have you done to my daughter?” Duncan thundered, and Rory felt a sudden loss of her presence as Peggy pushed herself away from Rory, holding the plaid tightly around her as she stood between him and her father. Her eyes had grown wide, and two bright splotches of red graced her cheeks.

“Father,” she said as calmly as she could, holding out the hand that wasn’t grasping desperately at the fabric. “Please don’t blame Rory. He—”

“Silence!”

“It’s all right, Peg,” Rory said, placing his hands on her waist and gently moving her aside to stand beside him. “Your father is right. I took liberties I never should have.”

“You sure as hell should not have!” Duncan roared, his face turning red, and all his blustering must have woken those sleeping nearby, for Jane came flying through the door, a wrapper pulled tightly around her as she came to a sudden halt at the scene in front of her.

“Duncan?” She exclaimed in astonishment when she saw her husband. Then she noticed the state of undress which Peggy and Rory found themselves in. “Oh, Peggy,” she said, her face becoming somewhat crestfallen.

“Jane,” Duncan’s voice softened somewhat as he turned to look at his wife — as it always did, though he clearly didn’t forget what he had walked in on. His face tightened somewhat, however, as he crossed his arms over his chest.

“Jane,” he repeated, “what has been happening while you and our daughter have been here at Darfield?”

Jane turned to give her husband an admonishing glare.

“Pardon me, Duncan? You are aware that Peggy is twenty-two years old, and I do not follow her around as though she is a child?”

Duncan did appear somewhat chastened, but he didn’t change his expression when he looked at the pair before him.

“What are you even doing here?” Jane asked.

“Of everything occurring in this room, ye are most concerned about why yer husband is here?”

“It is a reasonable question, seeing that most are now abed.”

“I decided I was tired of going to bed without my wife,” he finally said, and Rory was shocked when he saw Duncan McDougall’s face turn just the slightest shade of red. “I decided earlier this afternoon to come to collect you, but then I got slightly waylaid on my way over. Anyway, I am much later than I had planned to be. If only I had been earlier, then none of this would ever have happened. As it is…”

He looked back and forth between Peggy and Rory, and a chill began to creep up Rory’s spine, one that had nothing to do with the temperature in the room, which had actually become quite heated.

“Whatever ye have done here with my daughter, Rory MacTavish, I expect you will make it right,” he said, holding a finger in the air toward Rory, and Rory swallowed hard.

“Duncan,” he said, holding up his hands and trying to maintain calm. “I know how this looks, trust me, I do. But nothing happened that needs to be… rectified, if ye understand what I am saying.

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