Ravished by the Iron Highlander: A Steamy Scottish Historical Romance Novel by Maddie MacKenna & Cobalt Fairy

Author:Maddie MacKenna & Cobalt Fairy [MacKenna, Maddie & Fairy, Cobalt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Maddie MacKenna
Published: 2020-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

19

The pain in Lara’s eyes had his guts twisting. The poor woman was not older than twenty-seven summers but had a boy of five and an infant of three months. With no husband to take care of her and her bairns—a husband he knew she loved—it had to be tearing at her soul.

For a second time, he left the dais and went to her. He rested a hand on her son’s shoulder and bit back a wince when he saw her green eyes dark with pain.

“Let me take ye to a room, Lara,” he offered.

She shook her head and her hands hugged her baby boy tighter. “Tell me the truth…” she swallowed hard, “is he dead? Is me husband dead?”

He was about to answer her but she rushed on. “I kent that when ye came back, perhaps he would have come with ye but I dinnae see him and me—” her face was heavy and unshed tears were shining in her eyes. “I had hoped that he was injured or—” her voice shattered on the last words and Duncan’s hand shot out when she began to sway on her feet.

“Is he in a room recovering?” her voice was desperate with hope.

Duncan did not give her the assurance she needed—as he could not— and when nothing came from him, a low keen of pain came from her. She did totter on her feet this time and he grabbed her. The poor woman did not deserve this.

“Let me help ye, Lara.”

She nodded numbly and with an arm around her back and a hand resting on her son’s shoulder, he led them out of the room. He took them into a room big enough for a family, a floor above the ground floor where they hosted visitors.

He assisted Lara into a chair and set her son on the edge of the bed. Getting another chair, he sat and clasped her free hand with both of his. “I’m so sorry, Lara…but aye, he’s gone.”

She sucked in her bottom lip and her eyes clenched tight. A tear did slip from her left eye and she pulled her hand out to wipe it. “I had hoped, prayed, begged God to have him come back but…” she shook her head then looked at him with grieved eyes, “who’s going to help us now?”

“I will,” Duncan vowed. “Ye can call on me for anything ye need. Orrick was like my blood-brother, whatever I can do for ye and yer bairns, I will.”

Lara sucked in a breath, “How—how did ye survive?”

“I had…help,” Duncan said and in short, concise terms told her how he had found aid in England and the women who had given it to him. He ended with, “I barely survived, Lara, and I wish I could have saved Orrick from his death but…” Isabella’s words came to him and he smiled, “a wise person counseled me to believe that he passed kenning that if I did live, I’d take care of ye and his bairns, and he is right.

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