A Rhanna Mystery by Christine Marion Fraser

Author:Christine Marion Fraser [Fraser, Christine Marion]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2013-03-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Rhanna was ablaze with spring colour; March had moved into April and tender green shoots were burgeoning everywhere. Fat sticky buds hung heavily on the trees, ready to burst open; the hill slopes were furred with young grasses, and the burns tumbled down through the corries, glinting and sparkling in the light of the sun.

Everything was new and fresh and as Fergus walked along the Glen Fallan road to Slochmhor he took a deep breath of the clean fragrant air and felt glad of his own company for a while. The last two weeks had been hectic; everyone, it seemed, had found a reason to visit Laigmhor. The door had never stopped opening, a regular stream of ‘sightseers’, as Bob dourly called them, coming to ‘see was Fergus wanting anything’, when all the while what they really wanted was to see Fern Lee and speak to her so that they could discover for themselves the gory details about her ‘bad devil o’ a man’.

The family, too, were never far from the place, with Fiona, Ruth, and Shona popping in at all hours of the day, and Grant, on the evenings that The Arian was berthed in Portcull, making sure that he spent a greater part of his off-duty hours keeping his father company.

To cap it all, Ellie Dawn had joined ranks with Lorna to ‘look after Grampa’ and Lorna, feeling ousted from her position as chief grandad-sitter, had, in an attempt to regain her leadership, been more assertive with Ellie Dawn than usual, the result being that both little girls were wont to snipe at one another and look to Fergus for his support in their small wars.

Fern Lee was not in the least perturbed by all this, rather she appeared to enjoy the whole thing, and when it was decided that Ellie Dawn should stay at Laigmhor to ‘keep Lorna happy’ she positively welcomed the addition of another child into the household and set out to look after them with such enthusiasm, it wasn’t long before the children were incurably bewitched by her and more determined than ever to remain in the house till ‘Gramma came home’.

Fern was recovering well from her recent traumatic experiences and was growing more attractive with each passing day. There was a life and a passion about her that was almost spiritual, an excitement in her that endowed her with a charisma that made her glow and sparkle as if she was illuminated by some inner light. She hadn’t made any more flirtatious approaches to Fergus, but the promise of it was all there, in the flash of her dark eyes, the sensuous sway of her lithe body, the way she sat and moved, the intimate manner in which she brushed against him whenever she got the opportunity.

There was also a restlessness in her that Fergus found worrying. For days she would content herself and really seemed to enjoy being there at Laigmhor with him, then quite without warning she would disappear, often

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