Tharaen (Immortal Highlander Book 2): A Scottish Time Travel Romance by Hazel Hunter

Author:Hazel Hunter [Hunter, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allure Press
Published: 2017-10-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

DIANA LEFT KINLEY by the loch and grabbed a torch before she headed for the glen. At first she walked blindly, finding her way down the ridge path by instinct. Once she stepped out of the rocks she stared at the wide, grassy plain, and how the moonlight made everything look ghostly. The panorama certainly went along with the big freaking castle, the resurrected highlanders, and their undead enemies. No dragons, though. She’d been half-hoping for some scaly, jewel-eyed beast to slither out of the dungeon to send her a telepathic Heya.

She hadn’t just joined a clan of immortals. She’d fallen in love with one. One who along with all the others had been killed. Slaughtered. Right here.

Diana started jogging across the glen. The flame of her torch whipped wildly over her head, and she stumbled a few times, but she didn’t fall or stop. Soon she was running, her legs taking the long, bouncing strides she’d used in college to win three state track competitions. She didn’t have to stop. She could run until she couldn’t think anymore, until she couldn’t imagine what it had been like for Raen–

A wide stream flashed in front of her, too wide to jump. Diana tried to run through it, lost her footing and was swept off and hurled over a shelf of rocks into a deep pool of cold water.

She surfaced, sputtering as more water crashed down on her head. Submerging, she swam a few yards and resurfaced to see the waterfall she’d gone over. It looked almost as high as the cliff she’d thought Kinley had jumped off back in Horsethief Canyon. Her now-extinguished torch floated up to bob on the waves, and that was when she realized the pool of water and the rocks surrounding it were being lit by something else, something that was flashing over her head.

Diana looked up to see a huge storm cloud spreading over her, its dark billowy mass crawling with lightning, and felt two big, strong arms reach around her. She hated how wonderful it felt, as if nothing mattered but being with him.

“If you were trying to sneak up on me, your spirit blew it.”

“You knew I would follow,” Raen said and turned her around to face him. The flashing overhead echoed in his gray eyes. “I am the same man I was, Diana. Naught has changed but what you ken of my past. But if ’tis too much, tell me now, and I will leave you be.”

“Too much?”

She pushed him away, swam to the edge of the pool, and hoisted herself out. She would have run from there back to the castle, but her legs felt like gelatin, her head was spinning, and she couldn’t catch her breath. It shocked her to realize she was furious with him.

Raen climbed out and started to reach for her, and then apparently thought better of it.

“You are angry, I understand. I had no choice. I couldnae tell you. ’Tis clan law. Only those pledged to us can be told.

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