The Key to Her Heart: A Highlander Time Travel Romance by Dabney Blanche

Author:Dabney, Blanche [Dabney, Blanche]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Published: 2019-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Daisy didn’t know what all the talk of keys meant. The stories Tabby had read to her made a strange kind of sense but then maybe she’d been living with her housemate for too long.

How could a key send anyone through time? It was just a key.

The box sat on her dressing table, looking at her as she brushed her hair in the mirror. Inside was the silver key. She ran through everything that had happened in the last few days, trying to make sense of it all.

She had delivered a box to the laird of MacGregor Castle. She’d forgotten to get him to sign for it and when going back to do that, she’d learned he was more eccentric than she thought.

He’d no concept of a pen and time seemed to move at a different speed for him. Perhaps by the time she got there this time, he might already have had the party.

What else?

She’d gone to collect a box from the sorting office only to get hit by a car while looking inside at the key it contained. She’d dreamed of him and some bizarre medieval infirmary and then woken up in hospital.

The swelling on her ankle had gone down but the grazes on her thigh were enough to confirm she had been injured. Then she found out the box wasn’t even for her, it was supposed to go to the laird, no doubt a companion for the box he’d already received.

Was that about it?

Sure, if she left out all the stewing she’d done about him, about the man she wanted to forget.

It had proved impossible to get him out of her mind and that was the main reason she’d agreed to go back up one last time. She would deliver this box, say a mental goodbye and then go back home, forget about him for good.

When she was thirteen she had taken up smoking. It had been a stupid thing to do and the habit hadn’t lasted long. The other girls in school were doing it and she was offered one not long after she’d become a laughing stock for proposing marriage to their biology teacher.

She remembered coughing her way through her first cigarette, the girls she thought were her friends slapping her on the back and telling her it got easier, how proud they were of her.

Jock MacGregor was like the cigarettes. When she’d been trying to quit after a few months of smoking, she had found herself thinking about them more than when she was actually holding a cigarette in her hand.

Once she had stopped, her mind was filled with nothing else. Then, over time, the desire for them had faded away. She had thrown herself into running, cycling, music. Anything to distract her from the craving for nicotine.

As an adult she could look back at that time and see it for what it was. She’d gotten lucky. She might have become hooked on smoking but she forgot about it. Now she was hooked on a Scottish laird.

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