Ghost Clan (Phoenix Throne Book 1): A Scottish Highlander Time Travel Romance by Heather Walker

Ghost Clan (Phoenix Throne Book 1): A Scottish Highlander Time Travel Romance by Heather Walker

Author:Heather Walker [Walker, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-15T16:00:00+00:00


Chapter 19

Carmen watched Angus set off with a jaunty step. The closer he got to the final confrontation, the happier he seemed. He’d made his peace with whatever happened.

He found another curving, gold-leafed staircase swooping upward to yet another glorious landing overlooking a wide hall. At the top, four wings spread off in different directions. Dozens of closed doors stood silent and mysterious along all four passages.

Angus threw open the first and looked in on a bedroom done up in fancy tapestries, carved furniture, and a cheerful fire burning in the fireplace. A hot meal waited on the table, just as if the ghosts expected some guest to arrive.

Angus pulled the door closed and went to the next. It opened on a sheer cliff face dropping out of sight. Bold, perilous mountain peaks stood all around, and an icy wind slashed the onlookers’ faces. Angus shut the door against the wind. “The whole castle’ll be lik’ this, I reckon. Each door opens into some other world. Ye ken travel there by stepping through.”

He flung open the next door. In front of all their eyes, a steam locomotive screamed down its tracks on a collision course with the door. The headlamp glared in their faces, and the whistle shrieked to raise the dead. Angus slammed the door just in time. Fergus and Jamie trembled in their boots. “What was that?”

Angus shook himself. “I dinnae ken. Come on.”

He moved on to the next door. He put out his hand for the latch when Callum broke away from the group. “We may as weel speed things up a bit.”

He crossed the passage to a different door opposite. Without really looking, he threw it open. At the same moment, a whizzing, spinning, burning ball of fire rocketed through the door and struck him in the head. It flattened him across the floor.

The others whirled around to face the threat when another four fire balls hurtled through the door going a mile a minute. One of them whistled past Carmen’s ear. She ducked sideways just in time when another came at her knees. She jumped over it and bolted. Her police training told her to take shelter behind the door jamb, and she plastered her back against the wall.

The brothers didn’t move so fast. One of the fire balls struck Fergus in the stomach. He doubled over, and the air grunted out of his lungs. Angus laid hold of Fergus’s sleeve and dragged him toward Carmen. He flung his younger brother behind the door jamb as another projectile zinged across the threshold.

This one hit Angus in the shoulder. It singed his shirt and knocked him reeling. Carmen lunged forward. “Angus!”

Fergus held her back. Another missile whooshed into view coming straight at Angus’s head. He whipped out his saber and smashed it to pieces with one upper cut. It splintered into a shower of flames that bounced on the stone floor.

Callum, Ewan, and Jamie all fought the things catapulting through that door. Angus charged forward. He put out his hand to yank the door closed when he froze in his tracks.



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