Healing the Tormented Highlander by Lydia Kendall

Author:Lydia Kendall
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Highland
Published: 2020-01-18T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

CEANA WAS wary of setting foot outside the castle, but amidst its walls and behind the strong sturdy gates she felt quite safe, especially with Raghnall at her side.

The sense of guilt and shame she had felt at their spending the night together was now quite gone. She had reasoned to herself that in matters of love such things were not unusual. She had fallen in love with Raghnall and she knew that his feelings for her were the same.

She was happiest with him at her side or amidst the peace of the infirmary, where she continued to practice her healing arts. But in the days which followed her assault by the mysterious stranger in the hooded cloak, she had noticed a change come over Raghnall.

Three times she had caught him looking at her with a strange expression. It was almost as though he were searching her, looking for something deep within her soul. His look unnerved her, yet when she asked him what was wrong, he denied that anything was.

“I am just a wee bit tired, lass. That is all,” he would reply, smiling at her and returning to his business.

She had noticed that he was absent from the castle and that he was often in hushed conversation with Andrew Macready. The Captain of the guard also gave her strange and searching looks and Ceana wondered if perhaps she had done something wrong.

There was a tense atmosphere about the castle, as though some threat or doom hung over them all. At night, extra guards were placed upon the ramparts and daily the patrols rode out east and west, north and south. The castle felt like an island amid a storm, battered on every side by unknown forces.

All the while, Ceana went about her duties and kept to her promise. The key was kept secret, the key was safe. For Ceana had trusted no one with knowledge of it, not even Raghnall himself.

“Ye are doin’ it again, Raghnall,” Ceana said, as they sat at dinner.

“Doin’ what, lass? I am just eatin’ my dinner,” he said, shaking his head.

“But ye were lookin’ at me just then, ‘tis the fourth time I have seen ye look at me like that,” she said, a puzzled look upon her face.

“And why wouldnae I want to look at a lass so beautiful as ye?” he asked and Ceana blushed.

“There are a dozen lasses in this castle far more beautiful than I,” Ceana replied. “Why me?”

Raghnall paused for a moment and smiled.

“Ye are different, Ceana. We have shared far more than many. Ye have made me so very happy since yer arrival, ye have filled my days with far more excitement than I am used to,” he replied.

And yet he looks at me as though I am some mystery to him.

“Then perhaps I shall start lookin’ at ye with the same gaze,” she replied and he laughed.

“Ye may look at me all ye wish. Will ye have a little more claret?” he asked, offering her the bottle.

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