A Scot's Devotion by Sky Purington

Author:Sky Purington
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

HE AND CHLOE remained silent for several moments, processing what they’d just been told. Grant had literally poofed away in a crackle and pop of flames, seemingly taking Adlin with him.

But not before they shared a few things.

“Did I hear that correctly?” Chloe finally murmured. “Whatever my former faery did to lose her immortality is directly connected to Adlin and his foster sister, Iosbail, losing their immortality in their previous life?”

“Aye,” he confirmed. “’Tis precisely what Adlin said.”

“And Grant responded by saying Adlin and Iosbail lost their immortality when they found true love,” she said. “That’s when they started aging.”

“Aye, correct.”

“And what do you make of that?” she prompted when he didn’t say anything further.

“I dinnae know.” He shook his head, lost in thought, trying to come to grips not only with what she’d shared before his elders arrived but by the sheer panic he’d felt when she vanished earlier. “All I know, and Adlin and Grant agree, is that this connects you to Adlin’s creation in another life.”

“When he was conceived at the Irish Stonehenge by the Druidess and the Celtic King?”

“That’s right.” He met her eyes. “Somehow, you, as a faery, influenced his magic, Chloe. Or, more pointedly, influenced true love.”

“Well, we all know that now, don’t we,” she said dryly. Her sad gaze settled on the fire. “Just look at what I did to you.”

While some might be furious, he was not. Did it hurt that Maeve’s heart was never truly his? Of course. But in some small way, it was freeing too. As if the veil he had sensed before was pulled back even further. That he drew ever closer to some great truth.

Though he knew better than to touch Chloe any more than he already was, nude with nothing but fur between them, he needed her eyes with his. He needed her to see his true feelings. So he tilted her chin until her gaze found his.

“What you did for me, not to me, Chloe, was satisfy my longing,” he said softly. “I loved Maeve and ‘twould have been unthinkable had she not loved me back.”

She nodded, clearly muted by overwhelming emotion.

“Truly, lass.” He searched her eyes. “You are not, nor have you ever been a monster as you put it. I have no doubt that your reasons were pure and that you only had my best interests at heart.”

He meant that too. He felt it.

“I hope you’re right because it sounds like I was going somewhere that only belongs to God,” she murmured. “It sounds like I interfered where I had no right.”

“I dinnae know about that,” he murmured, more confident by the moment that his sense about this was correct. “I get the feeling ‘twas your place, lass. That...”

“That what?” she said when he trailed off, caught by the strong certainty that washed over him.

“That ‘twas, as Grant guessed, your love for me at work,” he said softly, searching her eyes again, following the sparkle that had ignited deep within. “That whatever you did, mayhap even that you made Maeve love me, was because your love for me was so true.

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