The Chase by Lynsay Sands

Author:Lynsay Sands
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Published: 2011-11-25T23:54:39+00:00

Blake glared at the door with frustration and pounded on it again. "Seonaid! Come out here!"

"Here! What's all this racket? How's a body supposed to rest and regain his health with the likes o' you making all this noise?"

Blake turned slowly to find his intended father-in-law standing in the open doorway of the room across the hall from the one he had just pounded on. But it was the sight of his fine new braies on the man that made him scowl. The doublet was missing, but the bandage around the Scot's upper chest reminded Blake that the man had been shot in the shoulder by an arrow… and no doubt while wearing the gold doublet too. The blasted thing was probably ruined.

"Aye. What's all the racket?" Duncan asked, drawing Blake's attention to the next door down, which had opened to reveal the younger male Dunbar in a similar state of undress, though he wore only a linen wrapped around his waist. A damp linen. The man had obviously just come from his bath.

"My apologies, gentlemen," Blake said dryly. "I was merely trying to have a word with Seonaid."

"Well, have it another time. 'Tis obvious she's no interested in talkin' to ye." Angus's gaze slid past him to the door, then back, and a grudging smile curved his lips. "Managed to get her out o' the abbey, I see. That's a surprise. She must favor ye more than I thought, else she woudna have come out."

Blake snorted. "She came out because the abbess had unbarred the door to let us in. She thought it was safer to leave. We just got lucky enough to catch her. Then catch her again, and again."

Duncan gave a bark of laughter and moved away from his door to draw nearer, dragging the linen behind him as he came. "She's makin' ye run after her, is she?"

"Aye. The only reason we managed to get here now is because the Camerons attacked, else she would have made another run for it," Blake admitted grimly.

"The Camerons?" Angus's eyebrows flew up, and his gaze shot to Duncan before he glanced back and asked, "Well, what did ye do to make them angry at ye, lad?"

"Me?" Blake said with surprise. "They were not after me. Seonaid, Aeldra, and Sister Helen were bathing when the men attacked them. Seonaid said they were enemies to the Dunbars and it was best to get back here before they went for help and came back with a larger party."

Father and son exchanged another glance.

"Why would she lie about that?" Duncan asked his father, but the older man merely shook his head in open bewilderment.

"Do you mean to say the Camerons are not enemies to the Dunbars?" Blake asked, his eyes narrowing.

"Nay. We've no fight with the Camerons," Duncan told him.

"But she said you did."

"She lied," Angus said easily, not at all upset that she had.

"But she made us ride day and night to reach here for fear they would attack again."

"She made ye hurry back here?" Duncan asked with surprise.

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