The Blooded Ones by Elizabeth Brown

Author:Elizabeth Brown [Brown, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-26T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

Maggie

“How dare you follow me?” Maggie shouted. Kwetii moaned in her sleep, and Maggie immediately lowered her voice to a seething hiss. “Do you want Winn to kill you? Is that what you’re about? I won’t stop him, you know, not for one second!”

She stomped her foot for emphasis. Annoyed beyond belief that Benjamin had invaded her space, she did not understand why he could not leave well enough alone. Things had calmed down of late, and Winn appeared to be softening toward the idea of staying. Yet it would take just one stupid move by Benjamin to end her hope, and he was standing in front of her wielding it.

“I dinna come here to fight with ye! I just want a few words with ye, and then I’ll leave ye be! I never see ye without Winn at yer side, and I’d rather not cause more strife between us,” he said. Benjamin ran both hands through his unruly dark curls, clutching the back of his neck as he stared at her.

Maggie crossed her arms over her chest. Fair enough. She supposed she could hear him out. She did not feel that she owed him anything, after the way he lied and schemed, but since she loved his father and his brother, she would give him a few minutes if it would help things.

“Fine. You have two minutes. I need to get back to my husband.”

She saw him flinch.

“Thank ye,” he said. He approached, and she stepped back, shaking her head. He sighed and dropped his hands. “It’s still strange to me, ye know. Seeing ye here, and knowing yer my brother’s wife. But see ye, I must, if I wish to live with my kin, and yes, I do! I do want to be here. Do ye know what it’s like, to have no kin?”

“Of course I do. We played together as children. You know I had no parents, that Marcus was my family! Why do you ask that?”

“Oh, aye. I remember that. You were a foul-mouthed thing even then, I think ye told me to go shit myself or some other nonsense before ye kicked me out of yer hiding place,” he said.

A grin twisted the corner of her lip, unwilling, but definitely there. Yes, she recalled the last time she saw him as a child as well. Flashes of a curly-headed boy that followed her everywhere snuck into her mind, images of the future life they both left behind. Yes, she knew what it was like, to be displaced, to feel alone in another time. It was one reason she had married Benjamin when she thought Winn was dead.

“Did you come here to talk about that life, or this one?” she asked softly.

“Maybe both. I know not what to say to ye. I wish ye to know there will be no trouble from me. That bloody magic stone is something I never wish to see again, but at least it has returned me to the place I belong.

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