Ranulf: Snow Dragons Hunting 3 by Carole Mortimer

Author:Carole Mortimer [Mortimer, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Sephie stayed upstairs only long enough to ensure that her parents knew that their ordeal really was over and they were safe now.

Because she had absolute confidence in Ranulf and his brothers to ensure that it was.

“I wanted to kill that bastard with my bare hands,” Sephie’s father burst out vehemently, his fists clenched. “But instead, I had no choice but to remain tied to that damned chair and watch as he dragged my wife away to lock her in the cellar and then later hit my daughter.” He was sitting on the bed, his arm about his wife’s shoulders, his gaze fierce as he looked at the bruise on Sephie’s cheeks and her slightly swollen lip.

“He hit you too. And I’m fine.” She gave her father a reassuring smile. “Really,” she comforted warmly when her parents both continued to look concerned.

Her mother gave a shudder. “I was so relieved when he brought me up from the cellar so that I could be with the two of you. But then the nightmare became even more dire when he started setting dynamite around the place. I really thought he was going to blow the inn up and kill us all.”

Sephie sat on the other side of her mother and gave both her parents a hug. “I think we all thought that for a while.” The sheer terror of living through those hours of constantly feeling in danger would take a long time to get over. If they ever did.

Her father nodded. “I believe he would have done exactly that if the Drake brothers hadn’t stepped in and saved us.”

Sephie had no intention of telling her parents that the situation wouldn’t have occurred at all if Edgar Wallis hadn’t convinced himself that the Drake brothers knew something about the existence of dragons, and because they did, they were hiding dragon treasure from him.

She was still having difficulty making sense of that one herself!

But, as she still had no explanation as to why she saw a castle and her parents saw a large house, she wasn’t going to question that too deeply right now. The only thing that mattered to her was that her parents were safe, she was safe, and that none of the Drake family had been hurt during their rescue.

But she was still determined that the first thing Ranulf would do was share everything with her.

Until, that was, when, on her way back to the kitchen, she’d glanced into a room that in medieval times would have been the Great Hall—it probably still was, because Sephie could definitely envisage the Drake brothers sitting at the long table beside a fire that would be lit in the huge fireplace, a pack of salivating Scottish deerhounds waiting for them to throw the bones once the men had stripped the meat off them—and saw something almost as unreal as being held prisoner for hours by a madman.

“What is it?” Ranulf demanded as he rushed into the room. “Sephie?” Having obviously seen for

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