The Highlander's Touch by D.K. Combs

Author:D.K. Combs [Combs, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Highland
Published: 2015-08-18T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

“K ane…” He shook his head, silencing her. Saeran stared up at him, horrified by his tale. Feuds in the Highlands were common—but this was tragic. Simply tragic. Duncan Shaw had done nothing wrong except love a forbidden woman and his children—and Campbell, the selfish, arrogant son of a bitch, had taken it too far.

“I saw it. Through the crack in the wardrobe she pushed us into. She was running to join my father when he stumbled into the room—with a sword embedded into his stomach. He fell into her. She caught him. The English man knocked her unconscious and threw her over his shoulder, laughing. It was like he wiped his hands clean of the fight the second his sword was in my father’s heart.”

Kane laughed bitterly. The bitterness wasn’t the only thing she saw when she looked up at him. It was the horror of a child who’d seen his father killed in front of him. It was the horror of realizing he had lost the one man he never should have lost, and that his mother had been taken. In that instant, she could see the image of him as a child—confused and frightened. Saeran fought back her tears.

She wanted to ask after his mother, if he had ever found her again. But the anguish in his eyes was too great.

In a horrible way, she had been lucky. She hadn’t seen her parents die—instead, she had been at court with her sister, hiding in the library.

“My father’s second in command went after my mother. They found her and brought her home, but…Mother went insane,” he said quietly. She didn’t think he was all the way there. His voice was distant, eyes glazed over. “The McGregor was training me for leadership of the Shaw clan, and my mother lost her mind. She became obsessed with having her revenge. When I refused to help her, too busy training to take over as Laird, she went to Alex.

“I think, even if I had known what she was up to, I couldn’t have stopped her. Annalise was sent to marry Hans Grayham—a measure she took for his loyalty and Anna’s safety—and went after the king. Alex and my mother didn’t come back to the keep.”

“You mean…he killed them?” Saeran was stunned—and disbelieving. Her cousin would never do such a thing, not ever! He was one of the most fair and considerate people she knew. Surely he would not condemn a woman tormented by the loss of her husband to death.

“He didn’t kill her. He banished her—and would have done so to the whole Shaw clan, had McGregor not been there. He saved the clan,” Kane murmured, head falling back against the wall.

“Kane, the king would not—”

“He did. I was there. I heard the order.”

“Nay—”

Hard, cold eyes snapped to hers. “Donna tell me what I did and did no’ see and hear, lass. Yer a Lowlander. Of course ye’ care about the good king’s name—but I donna, and I never will.”

“How did McGregor save the clan?” she asked thinly.

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