Born of Mist and Legend (Highland Legends Book 3) by Kat Bastion

Author:Kat Bastion [Bastion, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780998232980
Publisher: Kat Bastion and Stone Bastion
Published: 2020-04-12T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Excitement buzzed along Brigid’s nerves, quickenin’ her breaths.

Intoxicatin’ heat flowed through her veins, flushin’ up to warm her skin, sizzlin’ down to burn other, more intimate, parts.

With her head fogged from the dizzyin’ sensations, from Skorpius’s nearness, from his incredible maleness, it took several heartbeats to realize he’d paused right when he was about to kiss her. And…he’d asked her a question.

Furrowin’ her brow, Brigid sucked in a clearin’ breath and straightened away from the delicious source of her body’s loomin’ thunderstorm.

“Nay.” She gave a slight headshake. “I dinna fully explain how I came upon it.”

Those sapphire-emerald eyes swirled. “Enlighten me.” His voice deepened, commandin’.

And Jesu! that firm tone burst an electric pulse of heat through her body all over again.

Brigid narrowed her eyes at him and drew in another calmin’ breath. “If you keep orderin’, I’ll be takin’ my sweet time in the tellin’.”

His glower intensified. Master. Apprentice.

But as his reminder boomed into her mind, a bit of wicked amusement sparked in his eyes.

Her skin flushed hotter. “Cease your teasin’.”

“Then get on with the tellin’,” he further taunted. As if he knew in full measure how his dominatin’ continued to affect her.

“Aye.” She blew out a slow breath and surrendered to their sensual quarrel. “I’ll be tellin’ the tale. And ’tis not a whole tale till you hear from first to last.”

With the corners of his mouth twitchin’ as he fought a smile, he stretched out and reclined back on a bent arm. “I promise not to interrupt.”

“Weel, as I watched you—mortal Lancelot-you—in the garden, my gaze fell upon what had captured your focused attention. Quill in hand, head bent forward, you penned with great concentration onto a linen page. Now and then, your expression shifted from sorrowful to thoughtful. After a time, my gaze fell upon a stack of pages at your feet, weighted by a rock. Then my thoughts drifted to your journal.

“All of a sudden, Lancelot-you vanished along with the garden and the light of that day. Darkness surrounded me. Till pricks of light glittered before my eyes. Which illuminated another me.

“Somehow, I’d gone back in time to when I’d first touched the wall. Many months ago. I’d done so to save our clan, to make Brodie Castle disappear.”

Brigid paused when he nodded his understandin’, of their need to hide their castle and how the wall worked. ’Twould make sense that he’d know. Angelkind had gifted the castle and its many secrets to their clan generations ago.

“My human self dinna acknowledge my time-travel presence. She simply passed through the wall, as before. And I followed, stridin’ through white mist behind her. Nigh at once, we appeared within a chamber of dense rock, made of a bluish black substance, much like the wall in Iain’s map room that we’d passed through. It appeared to be a cave, but ’twas more. And so verra dark. No light penetrated.”

Skorpius said nothing. But he watched her with rapt attention.

“’Twas your lair, was it not?”

He gave a nod. “For the beast I’d become.

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