The Revelation is Love by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-908411-62-4
Publisher: Barbara Cartland.com

CHAPTER FIVE

Pain shot viciously through Rupert’s head.

At first he imagined that he had been attacked while walking home from his New York office.

Then realisation began to seep through.

He was not in New York. He had come to Scotland to take up his inheritance. But what was he doing lying on the ground, feeling as if his head had been battered in?

Memory gradually floated back.

He and Celina had been attacked on their way to try and locate this accursed heirloom that was causing all the trouble between him and the MacLeans.

She had taken up the shotgun and at first he thought that she was going to shoot her uncle, but then she had lowered the gun. Hamish MacLean had jumped upon him and that was the last thing he remembered.

Managing to ignore the pain that seared through his head with the slightest movement, Rupert sat up.

Bright sun made his eyes ache, but it indicated that the trap stood nearby, the horse calmly cropping the grass.

For a moment he wondered why the MacLeans had gone, then realised that they must have left him for dead.

Celina Stirling must have gone with them.

Had she betrayed him?

Was her declaration last night that she no longer wished to be engaged to Hamish MacLean just a ruse?

Had she somehow managed to inform her relations where they were going?

He tried to dismiss this idea as nonsense, but found that it would not go away.

How long had he lain unconscious?

Looking at the sun, Rupert realised that it was at its height and several hours must have passed since the attack.

He staggered to his feet and managed to reach the trap. He held on to it for a while to allow his legs to regain some strength and then looked about him searching for a stream he had noticed just before they were attacked – it was a little way off to his left.

Feeling stronger, he went over and thrust his head into the cooling water. Blood still oozed from his wounds, but it did not seem all that serious.

He must be growing used to being assaulted!

On his way back from the stream, a flash of colour took him over to a gorse bush.

Tangled in it was a tartan scarf – it was Celina’s and he carefully disentangled it to find that it was torn.

He felt both relief and anxiety.

Relief because surely the tear and the fact that the scarf had been abandoned indicated that she had not betrayed him, but had been taken by force.

And anxiety that she too could have suffered injury.

Finding the scarf decided him.

He must rescue Celina from the MacLeans.

Jessie welcomed him with a friendly whinny and seemed not to have suffered in any way.

Rupert stood and stroked her neck whilst he tried to form a plan.

They had been attacked not far from Drumlanrigg, so he was familiar with the lie of the land, particularly after studying Lady Bruce’s map the previous evening.

He reckoned that he could find Beaumarche Castle as well without too much difficulty.

The shotgun had gone from the trap, but, thanks to Duncan, he was not exactly unarmed.

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