Highland Prodigy (Highland Talents Heritage Book 1) by Willa Blair

Author:Willa Blair [Blair, Willa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oliver Heber Books
Published: 2021-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

Their food arrived just as Aftyn’s half-brother, Braden limped into the great hall, cradling his arm.

“What happened to ye?” She stood and helped him to a seat.

“Damn Archie hit me in the elbow with a practice sword.”

“Well, thank the saints it was made of wood and no’ a real one. Ye’d be minus half yer arm, would ye no’?” She carefully pulled up Braden’s sleeve and bent to study the offended joint, taking note of the bruised-looking swelling forming above and below it.

“Dinna remind me.”

“Can ye move it?” Jamie’s concerned expression reminded her they hadn’t met.

“Ach, Braden, this is Jamie Lathan, the visiting healer. Jamie, this is the Keith heir, Braden.”

Braden nodded to Jamie and demonstrated, shifting his lower arm a fraction of an inch and stifling a yelp as he paled. “The bastard broke it.”

“Aye, I fear so,” Aftyn told him, sympathy filling her.

“Can ye fix it, Aftyn? Ye must.”

“Let me see,” Jamie said, stepping close.

“I can wrap it,” she said as Jamie, eyes closed and a frown drawing down his brow, touched Braden’s arm just above the elbow, then below it. “But first, ye would feel better if ye soaked in the loch. The cold would bring down the swelling.”

“And freeze the rest of me, too. Nay, it already feels better.”

“Cold water would help,” Jamie said, stepping back with a grimace.

Aftyn narrowed her gaze. Had he done something? He seemed uncomfortable, but he had before Braden arrived, too. She dismissed her observation as pure fancy. “I’ll have some of the lads bring up buckets of cold water. That might serve. Go up to the herbal with Jamie.”

Braden nodded and headed for the upper stairs with Jamie a step ahead, making sure no one jostled his arm.

She ran down the stairs and out into the bailey, hailed several lads still on the practice ground and told them what she needed. They hurried off to do her bidding and she went back inside, stopping first by the kitchen to beg a flask of whisky from Cook, who kept several on hand. Braden would need strong drink to dull the pain as she wrapped his elbow.

In the herbal, she poured a cup nearly full and handed it to Braden. “Ye need to drink as much of this as ye can stomach,” she told him.

“Ye ken I dinna like…”

“I do ken it, but the whisky will help with the pain,” she insisted. And if he passed out, that would be a blessing.

The lads arrived with the cold water she’d requested. She spent the next few minutes directing them where to put the buckets, so she didn’t see what Jamie did, but she heard them speaking in low tones. Aftyn turned around in time to see Braden flex his arm, slowly. Jamie did the same with his. Showing Braden how much to safely move it? When Braden cradled his arm, Jamie did, too.

“Good,” Jamie told him. “Now do as the healer tells ye, and dunk that elbow.” He glanced at the row of

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