Sinbound to the Highlander by Eloise Madigan

Author:Eloise Madigan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Highland
Published: 2020-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

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Slowly, she pried her hands from her face and sat up. Licking her lips quickly, Freya shook her head, “Isnae it? I did betray Elspeth.”

“Ye didnae such thing,” Lady Grace said stridently. “Freya, ye cannae dictate how love goes—if ye are in love, that is.”

Rubbing her forehead, Freya dropped her hand to look at her sister. Elspeth, however, was facing away, and her expression was blank as a cloudless sky. Freya dropped her hands to her lap and clenched her fingers so tightly that her nails bit into her palms.

Turning her face away from Elspeth, she met Evan’s eyes. “I ken it is, but I’ve never been in love before.”

“Regardless,” Laird Lobhdain said calmly, “With the masks off, I can see that ye two do care for each other, so ye do have me blessing for this marriage.”

Freya was listening with half an ear to her father’s words, and though comforting, a ball of trepidation still rested in her stomach. Elspeth had not uttered a word, and it was grating on Freya’s heart. Like a knife slicing unto unsuspecting flesh, her sister’s stony silence was cutting into her.

Bravely, she called out, “Elspeth?”

They watched as Elspeth turned to them, and her lips began to curl into a smile. Though it stopped halfway, Elspeth nodded, “I’m sorry, I just never expected this to happen. But after all, I understand. I’m happy for ye, Freya.”

Her lips slipped over in disbelief. She could hardly accept it as accurate, but the look on her sister's face was not wavering. Freya managed to tear her gaze away to look at her mother. The numbness that had come from Elspeth’s silence was fading away by the growing happiness that bled into elation.

Giving her parents a soft smile, she asked, “I’m engaged then?”

“Ye are,” Laird Aidan said, looking to Evan, who was trying to hold back his beaming grin. “And happily, I imagine.”

Wanting to reach out to Evan and take his hand and doing so were two different things. She felt it improper to show any affection, in the presence of her sister who, up until an hour ago, had been Evan’s intended. Thankfully, that decision was taken from her as Evan reached out and took her hand, gently pulling her up from her seat.

His arm wrapped around her waist, and he dropped a kiss on her forehead as he said, “Happily.”

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