A Ghostly Tale of Forbidden Love by Madeline Martin

Author:Madeline Martin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Highland
Published: 2017-09-18T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

SENARA RAN DOWN the stairs on trembling knees. Her lips tingled with Gavin’s kiss and her body burned, burned, burned.

Their meetings on the stairs were always brief and precious. They’d started off with smiles, then a finger trailed over a hand, then fingers clasped, then looks with far too much promise.

Kisses had soon followed and now…now her body craved so much more. Her skin tingled with heightened sensitivity and the warm, wet thrum between her legs was liable to drive her to distraction.

She knew he did not push their lust further for her sake. While she knew her thoughts to be wicked, she no longer wished him to hold back.

The ache for him was palpable and altogether distractingly present almost every moment of the day.

“Senara.” Lady Edana’s voice was a welcome interruption to the power of her own thoughts. “A missive arrived for ye.”

Senara rushed forward and took the parchment from the lady’s outstretched hand. The seal had already been snapped open and Edana had not even bothered to properly fold it close again.

Lady Edana turned away with disinterest and let her fingers hover indecisively over several different pots of face creams. “Yer family is dead.”

All the blazing heat of Senara’s body slipped away and left her icy cold. “What?” She ripped open the paper with numb fingers and read the paragraph scrawled there.

It was true.

Her entire family. Dead. Carried off by the plague.

Senara stumbled backward and only stayed upright with the aid of the solid wall catching her back.

Duncan, her old neighbor, sent his apologies and prayers for her good health in such times. He expressed his sorrow in not only their loss, but his inability to send her even a token from their home as everything had been burned to prevent the plague seeds.

All of it. All of them.

Gone.

As if they had never existed.

Gone.

The word screamed in her mind until her throat was tight. Senara pushed away from the wall and ran from the room on legs she felt sure would collapse under her weight.

“Senara,” Edana called after her. “Ye were no’ dismissed.”

She called out again, but Senara was beyond caring. Her family was dead.

Ma with her kind patience and gentle hands, Da who had always been so strong and brave. And Geordie. Her heart gave a savage wrench in her chest as one of his sweet smiles played out in her mind.

He would never smile again.

She scrambled up the steps, past the landing near the solar where Gavin most likely remained, and did not stop until she reached her room. Part of her had wanted to see Gavin, to fling herself into his arms and let loose the flood of her sorrow to pour from her heart in the safety of his embrace.

But no, she did not want his sympathy or his pity. All she wanted was to be alone with the ghost of memories she needed to cling to.

She plunged into her room and slammed the door behind her, for once finally caring at her inability to lock it.

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