Seductive Scot by Johnstone Julie & Mecca Cecelia

Author:Johnstone, Julie & Mecca, Cecelia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Historical Romance
Publisher: Darbyshire Publishing
Published: 2020-04-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

~ Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream”

“And then what happened?” Maggie asked, enthralled and frankly amazed by the story Shona and Grace were telling her. Shona shut the solar door, and she and Grace walked over to the window Maggie was peering out of. It overlooked the courtyard, and down below were Rhys, Reikart, Dermot, Deirdre, and Alastair, who was about to depart to try to discover, by finding a Court servant to bribe, whether Algien had fled to the English court. It seemed likely, given he’d not been with Donald and Nigel.

Deirdre was talking animatedly to Alastair, as she knew better than anyone else here where he could find a servant who would be willing to exchange information for coin. They needed to discover if Algien was there, what bedchamber he’d been assigned, and what his habits were when he came and went from the castle each day. The insight could be vital in aiding Deirdre and Reikart in procuring the cross.

“Well,” Shona said, looking down into the courtyard with Maggie, “after Grace helped me see that it could be a very good thing if Reikart fell in love with yer sister, we came up with a plan.”

Maggie smiled. Rhys had told her all about how much Shona had liked to matchmake when they were growing up, pairing the boys with “appropriate” girls, ones Rhys and his brothers had found old-fashioned, as he’d said. It seemed Shona’s desire had not changed. But Deirdre and Reikart? Maggie’s first reaction had been to think a possible match was ludicrous, but now, looking down at the two of them…

“I see what ye were talking about,” she said, pressing her fingertips to the cold glass of the window. Happiness at the thought that her sister could possibly find love with Rhys’s brother filled her. And if they were in love, then surely the two of them would come back through time with the rest of them if it were possible. “He’s standing verra close to her,” she murmured.

“Yes,” Shona agreed. “I know my son. Though he claims that he’s responsible for her simply because he promised ye, it’s more than that. If it was just that, he would relax now that she’s safe in her home.”

Maggie nodded. “And I know my sister. If she didn’t want Reikart at her back, she would have stepped to the side. Or more likely, she would simply snap at him to quit hovering.

Maggie turned away from the window and motioned toward the two large chairs near the fireplace. She and Rhys had sat there last night, talking of his time and hers, unsure which century they would live their lives in, raise children in, grow old together in. “Sit,” she said to Shona and Grace. “I doubt we have long before someone comes looking for us.

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