Utterly Dauntless: Return to Culloden Moor Book 3 by L.L. Muir

Author:L.L. Muir [Muir, L.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Green Toed Fairy
Published: 2025-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

In the most cowardly act he remembered performing in either of his lives, Grey stuck his head back in the kitchen to let them all know the plane would be ready at ten in the morning, and that he'd be back with pastries at nine. Then he fled.

If Aries chased after him, not that she would, he didn't look back to see.

In the morning, Grey arrived at Campbell’s to collect the two men. Carson was dressed in his Sunday best, and since Wallace looked wearier than his charge, Grey thanked him and sent him home. He'd done enough. Wallace only agreed after he arranged for Duncan Houser to replace him.

Grey was almost surprised to find Aries hadn't fled in the night. Instinct had tried to convince him to sit on the house and watch for her escape so he could follow her. But his need for sleep had overridden that instinct for once.

She had a closet of clothes at Peg's house, so she was able to change and pack a bag. When Tristan found out they were headed to Glasgow, he called and promised to bring her other things to her. He just waited for an address.

Peg's home was as quiet as the morning after a bender. Aries sported a pair of sunglasses. She smelled freshly laundered when he dared pass her in the kitchen, and he fought hard not to reach out and touch her when the pull to do so felt as if there were powerful magnets inside them both. His only consolation was when he noticed her pause and lean ever so slightly his way.

Then the moment was gone.

Appetites on the whole were enough to polish off the better part of two boxes of pastries before they loaded into the cars. Aries climbed into McHenish's vehicle, and when Grey didn’t complain, he earned a few quizzical glances from his friends, though they held their tongues.

Five Highlanders, one traumatized woman, and her pardoned kidnapper arrived at a small hangar where a private jet and pilot were waiting. Due to the dim light inside their new transportation, Aries removed her glasses. Her eyes were red, but when Wyndham asked if she'd slept at all, she claimed she had.

Grey had slept fine as well...from about four in the morning onward, when his body just couldn't stand to listen to his tortured thoughts another minute. The mean devil on his shoulder hoped she'd been as tormented by memories and longing as he, but the angel on his other shoulder had nothing but pity for her—especially considering what he planned next.

By the time they reached altitude, Aries was slumped in her seat across the aisle, and he wished the flight would be longer than just twenty minutes for her sake. Shug looked over his shoulder, noted the empty seat beside him, then came back to settle into it. From the look of him, he had concerns, and he didn't mince words.

"I couldn't help but notice the bag ye loaded on the plane.

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