A Highlander's Need (Highland Heartbeats Book 10) by Aileen Adams

Author:Aileen Adams [Adams, Aileen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

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Moira’s mind raced.

How could she escape him when he would be aware of every breath she drew? He would never let her out of his sight, she was certain of it.

He might even bind her, tie her to him, demand she remain at his side no matter where they rode.

And now that she had brought about his fury and the bitter resentment of wounded pride, he would never treat her well. Any tenderness that might have come about had already died.

Dead before it had the chance to bloom.

She touched her forehead to the mare’s soft neck, a wave of regret mixing with bitterness. He thought he could command her, force her into riding to Ben Macdui.

He was wrong.

No man told her what to do.

She closed her eyes. No man tells me what to do. No man.

Not even him. Not even one who she might have grown to…

“Are ye finished, or are ye merely wasting more of my time?”

Rather than finch beneath his cold, brutal voice, she stiffened her back as she always had while suffering indignities at her father’s hand. “I am prepared, but I must know where we go.”

For if he truly meant to take her to Luthais Campbell, she would break loose the moment she was in the saddle.

There might be no other chance.

“She thinks she deserves an explanation,” he snorted, walking the gelding to where Moira stood. It did little to ease the growing tightness in her throat that he was so much larger than her when on horseback.

The difference was difficult enough when his feet were on the ground.

Regardless, she drew herself up to her full height—what there was of it. “I do, as I shall make the ride with you. I doubt you need me to explain that I have no wish to pay a call on your uncle.”

“There is no need to explain,” he assured her.

He was so angry.

A man such as he might prove quite dangerous when angry. She had no desire to find out just how dangerous.

And yet it was too late to avoid his anger.

“There is no way to put the egg back in the shell,” she whispered.

He blinked; for a moment, the angry mask his face had become slipped, revealing his confusion. “What did ye say?”

She hadn’t expected to say it, and any explanation would sound foolish—even so, she replied, “Something I taught my brothers, years ago. Once an egg’s shell is broken, there is no hope of replacing the egg inside and sealing it up again.”

“And?”

“And that was what I remembered now. I thought to myself that I did not wish to incur your anger, that you might prove dangerous, but it is too late for such considerations. Your anger has already stirred.”

“I see.”

She took a deep breath, holding steady to the mare’s bridle in an attempt to keep herself fully upright as her knees all but knocked together. Kin Reid had never inspired such terror, the sort which soured the inside of her mouth and made sweat roll down the back of her neck.

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